ENCLOSING A FEW ACRES OF THIS OPEN SPACE FOR STATE PURPOSES--FOR THEIR
OWN BENEFIT? BY THE SPLENDOUR OF HEAVEN! I SHOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE
HEARD THE VARLETS OBJECT TO MY MAKING MILES OF IT SUCH--FOR _MINE_!"

_Secretary for War._ "AH, YOUR MAJESTY HAD IN _YOUR_ TIMES NO _TIMES_
TO RECKON WITH!"]

* * * * *

TIMES CHANGE.

["The 'Ranges Act' constitutes ... a standing menace to rights
of common wherever commons and open spaces exist."--_The
Times_.]

"The old order changes, yielding place to new."
By Phoebus, you are right, mellifluous TENNYSON!
Could Norman WILLIAM this conjuncture view,
He'd greet our Progress with--well, scarce a benison;
He, though ranked high 'midst monarchs and commanders,
Had the same weakness as our troops in Flanders.

ROBERT the Devil's ruthless son would clear
A county to make coverts, deer-runs, chaces.
What had he thought of modern notions queer
Concerning Common Rights and Open Spaces?
"The People--who are varlets!--still oppose them,
Whether the Powers that be make or enclose them!"

"The People _versus_ Powers that Be!" Ah, yes!