text:  But to exercise it ourselves that was midsummer madness! If _he_ would have seemed a robber in such a function what must we have seemed? Besides it is held by some who have more narrowly watched the Affghan modes of thinking that even where they _do_ submit to pay a tax it is paid as a loan and on the understanding that the chief receiving it is bound to refund it indirectly by leading them at some convenient season (which many conceive to be in every alternate year) upon a lucrative foray