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name mentioned, probably to the Queen herself; the gi^eet- 

 iugs, too, of almost filial respect which were bestowed by 

 the coloured people on one who, though still young, had been 

 to them a father ; who, indeed, had set the policeman the 

 example of gallantry by saving, in another cove near by, 

 other shipwrecked folk out of a still worse surf, by swimming 

 out beyond a ledge of rock swarming with sharks, at the risk 

 every moment of a hideous death. There, as in other places 

 since, he had worked, like his elder brother at Montserrat, as 

 a true civilizer in every sense of the word ; and, when his 

 health broke down from the noxious climate, had moved else- 

 where to still harder and more extensive work, belying, like 

 his father and his brothers, the common story that the climate 

 forbids exertion, and that the Creole gentleman cannot or will 

 not, when he has a chance, do as good work as the English 

 gentleman at home. I do not mention these men's names. 

 In Enorland it matters little ; in Trinidad there is no need to 

 mention those whom all know ; all I shall say is. Heaven 

 send the Queen many more such public servants, and me 

 many more such friends. 



Then up hurried the good little priest, and set forth in 

 French he was very indignant, by the bye, at being taken 

 for a Frenchman, and begged it to be understood that he was 

 Belgian born and bred setting forth how His Excellency had 

 not been expected till next day, or he would have had ready 



