16/39 They are full of drink and madness, and they don't know what they are about. If they get into the main system of gullies, we shall have them like rats in a trap, for they can never get out by the lower end. Do you see, Doctor, a little patch of white road among the trees over there? If they pass those walls upwards, they are confined as in a pound. Watch the white road, and we shall see." The piece of road alluded to was about two miles off, and winding round a steep hill among trees. |