The Government, which, being in the midst of them, fears them, treats them mildly.

It demands few taxes of them; it gives them shows, and sometimes bread, the _panem et circenses_ prescribed by the Emperors of the Decline.

It does not teach them to read, neither does it forbid them to beg.

It sends Capuchins to their homes.

The Capuchin gives the wife lottery-tickets, drinks with the husband, and brings up the children after his kind, and sometimes in his likeness.