His food and bed were free as long as he stayed.

We helped him find a job, and then he thanked us for our hospitality and went out of our house with our blessings upon him.

This form of community life was the social law in all the cottages of the Welsh.
It was like the law of tobacco among Americans.

Tobacco has always been "nationalized" in America, and so have matches.

Your pipe is your own, but your tobacco and matches belong to everybody.