text:  At such a "passage" as this it seems one would think the house were on fire and no time to be lost; the black mittens and the white now _Rob-Royishly_ invade each other's territory; each snatches up something and carries it off like the old marauders of the Border country; and reprisals are made and lines of discord and dissonance are establishing which require the police the magistrate and the riot act