Because when they do, people fire bomb them!
@bozz, this was another middle of nowhere place. The rich in the 1820's were likely landowners but how they got their kids to school by 9.30am each morning would be interesting. Horses and Carts would be clogging the local roads!
Haha, you mean they didn't walk uphill both ways to get to school back then? I thought that was the story...