There is no voice to stay man or boy from picking and eating the fruit, except conscience.

In England such a state of things would cause public indignation.

Children would die of cholera by the hundred.

The medical profession would be worked off its legs trying to cope with the natural results of over-indulgence in sour apples and unripe walnuts.

Public opinion would demand that these fruit trees should be fenced about, and thus rendered harmless.