In vain are arguments and kind words offered, "and in vain even is wheat offered for money; they refuse, shouting out that the convoy shall not go on." They have taken a stubborn stand, their resolution being that of a bull planted in the middle of the road and lowering his horns.

Since the wheat is in the district, it is theirs; whoever carries it off or withholds it is a robber.

This fixed idea cannot be driven out of their minds.

At Chant-nay, near Mans,[1120] they prevent a miller from carrying that which he had just bought to his mill.

At Montdragon, in Languedoc, they stone a dealer in the act of sending his last wagon load elsewhere.