Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

208 DANGER IN THE DARK.
tunity ; nor did they fail to improve it. Those implements
they carried off, will buy whisky enough to
keep them drunk a whole week. That's what you
get, by trying to rob the devil of his own; 'tis no
nse-you might as well expect,
"-Auld Nickie-ben
Wad take a thought,
.A:n' men'."
I saw at a glance, the mark of Cain upon them I"
" It's the want of instruction-that's all. Education
and discipline, are indispensable; without which,
there is no salvation for children, at least none in this
lower world."
"Always harping on education - the necessity of
education I As if it were intended for the common
people-what use have such hedgehogs as you fed
here just now, so bountifully, and who repaid you
with treachery and theft, what use I say, have they
for education ~"
" A great deal of use-it would transform them I"
" Yes, from sinners to reprobates-from little devils
to big ones !"
"Education has no such tendency."
" It has not upon those for whom it is intended."
"Heaven intended education for all."
"But the devil intends to be the schoolmaster of
the majority."
" No doubt, he'll educate those whom Church and
State neglect. All empty, idle bead, is Satan's workshop."