Here they force everybody who has any wheat to give it to them at 24 livres," and even at 18 livres, the sack.

Those among the band, who say that they have no money, carry away their portion without payment.

Others, after having paid what they please, re-sell at a profit, which amounts to even 45 livres the sack.

This is a good business, and one in which greed takes poverty for its accomplice.

At the next harvest the temptation will be similar: "they have threatened to come and do our harvesting for us, and also to take our cattle and sell the meat in the villages at the rate of two sous the pound."-- In every important insurrection there are similar evil-does and vagabonds, enemies to the law, savage, prowling desperadoes, who, like wolves, roam about wherever they scent a prey.