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There has never been a time—under the Blue-Laws or any other—when above fourteen crimes were punishable by death in Connecticut. But in England, within the memory of men who are still hale in body and mind, two hundred and twenty-three crimes were punishable by death!^[1] These facts are worth knowing—and worth thinking about, too.

FINIS.

1. See Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull's "Blue Laws, True and False," p. 11.