Moorland people, though they are eternally and viciously curious about the “concerns” of their neighbours, are slow to attempt any interference. They have a most wholesome dread of the law and its mysterious and never-ending sequences. There are, it is true, very rare occasions when the stand is still ridden to shame some prominent local individual or manifest hypocrite, who has shamefully used a woman in either single or married life. The influence of the country bully, quick to follow a threat by a blow, must not be under-rated. And as far as the outer and greater world is concerned the clannish feeling is still very strong. I was called once to a lonely and distant farm to see a fugitive from justice, who had been successfully hidden for a long time by his daughter, and was amazed that his concealment had not been given away. He was wanted in a notorious poaching case.
Bishop/Patients
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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