To judge from the newspapers, at least, they have nothing else to do.

And if _you_ follow your sporting instincts, you are a very fine fellow, and everybody admires you.

But if a shoemaker's son in Mellor follows his, he is a villain and a thief, and the policeman and the magistrate make for him at once." "But I don't steal his chickens!" cried the lad, choking with arguments and exasperation; "and why should he steal my pheasants?
I paid for the eggs, I paid for the hens to sit on 'em, I paid for the coops to rear them in, I paid the men to watch them, I paid for the barley to feed them with: why is he to be allowed to take my property, and I am to be sent to jail if I take his ?" "_Property_!" said Marcella, scornfully.

"You can't settle everything nowadays by that big word.

We are coming to put the public good before property.