Law of land

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The police carried out a raid and closed a factory.
The children, who were working there, were all set free.
Some said: "We are orphans. To eat we need a livelihood."
The reply was swift and crude: "It is against the law".

"Then we will have to beg", they said,
"or else we will have no food."
"That, too, is against the law,"
the policeman in charge said rudely.

"If we cannot work and cannot beg, then we will die from hunger,’’
replied the crying children. "That you can do,"
was the answer.
"There is nothing illegal in dying".