text:  They learn that for several months in the year this man never sees the sun; that in the cheerful season when the plough is going through the earth or the sickle is glittering in the corn and the winds are blowing the great clouds along the sky this pale prisoner is condemned to pore over title-deeds which secure the "quiet enjoyment" of the land to others; and if they imitate the oratory of their superiors they will remark upon the strange injustice that he should be bound down a slave to musty papers which give to others those pastures from which he never reaps a single blade of grass and which he is not even permitted to behold