[We] have […] a strong inclination to make a farce of it, and mingle buffoonry with the most serious scenes.

[…] marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment’s notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garotted.

to execute a program

Now leave Fantasyland and go back to the days of fur traders.