Otherwise they would wreck halls, and all destruction of property is to be deprecated. Therefore Purfling, by saving the halls from destruction, plays a useful part, and there are too few useful men. I too am a useful man. By abstaining from addressing meetings I too save halls from destruction. For all these reasons I will spare Purfling.
The chevin then is, and shall be further, unmasked. James Lavender shall be told and everybody else. I will spread it about. I will tell the men who touch their hats when we meet in the village of an evening. Instead of saying "A fine night" or "a wet evening" I will say "There is a chevin by the bridge. Tell it out." So the thing shall be known to all users of the bridge. I would, were I competent in lettering, inscribe a signboard thus—"It is only a chevin," and set it up on the bridge end. But I cannot letter nicely and I must depend on the mouth-to-mouth method. James, son of Joe, and others who go that way will in future look over-rail upon a chevin and will know what they see. And they will spit upon the chevin. If they do not I will pay them till they do. And the chevin will know himself unmasked and the envious blood of him will turn black with rage, and he will float belly up, and the shrimp will eat him.
