Yes, indeed they can! As long as anyone can remember there have only been ruffians living in that hut–no one else CAN live there! he declared emphatically. The two lasses might not be more than children yet; but it was all the same. When thistles and stinging-nettles had been sown, you could not expect to find corn and flowers growing. There was no arguing about that, and it could not be altered!