The prospect of going without bread puts a brief end to the charivari while a town meeting is held to remedy the situation.
Have you in the last three or four years attended a public meeting such as a town meeting or a council meeting?
The final version also makes the town meeting a more masculine event - the preliminary version has three women, while the final painting has only one woman clearly visible.
If the question had been put to the town meeting a discussion could have taken place and a poll could have been held.
This feeling may be quite unfair, but had we had this town meeting here today this would have come out.
But is that an argument against the town meeting?
It would certainly be more real to do it in that way than by means of a town meeting or a town poll.
The results of the poll confirmed the decisions at the town meeting.
