 | Charles Henry Chomley, Robert Leonard Outhwaite - Land value taxation - 1909 - 270 pages
...such facts as these before us we can understand the inspiration of the old rhyme — " Why prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, And leave the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." That those who were depriving... | |
 | Charles Zueblin - Social problems - 1910 - 232 pages
...man was being driven by the enclosure acts to make way for the rich man's sheep: "The law locks up the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common, but lets the greater villain loose who steals the common off the goose." Stealing fowl may still be punished even in the... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Social problems - 1910 - 400 pages
...to guard. A fine old English rhyme has immortalized this easy aristocratic habit — You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 89 But here, as in the case of the... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1912 - 388 pages
...there was much dissatisfaction. A popular piece of doggerel declared that : — " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Again, a small holder was frequently... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1912 - 408 pages
...point of view of the small holder is represented in a bit of current doggerel : " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Protest, however, was unavailing.... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - Law - 1912 - 342 pages
...is well sanctioned by precedent. Our forefathers rhymed it, in their easy-going way : You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Hopwood was a much-abused reformer,... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1912 - 404 pages
...point of view of the small holder is represented in a bit of current doggerel : " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Protest, however, was unavailing.... | |
 | Willis Mason West - Europe - 1915 - 908 pages
...expresses the feeling of the poor at this renewal of the ancient inclosure movement: — " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." And Goldsmith's pathetic "... | |
 | Norman H. Chance - American wit and humor - 1915 - 168 pages
...o' socks ; Pa woke an' sez, "It's time for bed; Ma, have you wound the clocks ?" * * * You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common — But leave the larger felon loose, SAID KATE TO SISTER ANN "If I were you I'd give to Lou The mitten sure... | |
 | Charles Zueblin, Helen Bernice Sweeny - Cities and towns - 1916 - 620 pages
...and gives the defendant the stiffening influence of the probation officer's aid. "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater villain loose, Who steals the common off the goose." The city court of Buffalo during the year 1913... | |
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The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 
