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of Conciliation or Compulsory Arbitration, a strike, occasioned 

 either by divergence from the strict terms of the bargain, or by 

 gauche " handling " of the workers — whether for it the sanction 

 of the Ballot or an order of the Shop Steward were a necessary 

 preliminary my researches have not as yet disclosed — a strike, 

 I repeat, could not be called off, but was irreparable, for ovketi 



ot ctX<j)'iv£g apr}y6vsg E}a\v Itt' aypi})'.^ 



By the Dolphins the economic weapon was evidently brought 

 to greater perfection than by their human brethren. The 

 crude " down tooling " of the Egyptian masons in the fourteenth 

 century B.C., although accompanied by violence such as 

 forcing main gates, etc., was (according to Maspero) quickly 

 settled by the attacked Governor handing over the keys of 

 the granaries, whence with bags — and bellies — full filled they 

 meekly returned to work. 



Of another ingratiating characteristic of the Dolphin, its 

 attachment and services to boys, instances are numerous and 

 well attested. 2 In truth we are compassed about with so great 

 a cloud of witnesses, from the autoptic gospel of the Anti- 

 Semite Apion 3 and of the wide-travelled Pausanias * to the 



^ Oppian, hal., V. 447. In mediaeval times instances of dolphins aiding 

 fishermen are related by Albertus Magnus, De Animalibus, VI. p. 653, and by 

 Rondolet, Libri de piscibus marinis, etc. (Lugduni, 1554-5), XVI. p. 471. At 

 the present day in Lake Menzalah porpoises shepherd the iish : the Egyptian, 

 however, spares to his helpers their lives, but naught else. The natives of 

 Angola were much more recognisant of service, as an interesting description 

 by an old traveller of a fish drive there evidences : " They use upon this coast 

 to fish with harping irons, and waite upon a great fish which cometh once a 

 day to feed along the shoare which is like a grampus. Hee runneth very near 

 the shoare, and driveth great skuls of fish before him ; the negroes runne 

 along and strike their harping irons about him, and kill great store of fish, 

 and leave them in the sand till the fish hath done feeding and then they come 

 and gather up the fish. This fish will many times runne himself aground, 

 but they will presently shore him off again, which is as much as four or five 

 men can doe. They call him Emboa, which is in their speech a Dogge : and 

 will by no means hurt or kill any of them." The Stravge Adventures of Andrew 

 Battell of Leigh in Essex. {Haklutus Posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes (ed. 

 Glasgow, 1905-7), vol. VI. p. 404.) 



- The evidence is collected and discussed by K. Klement, Arion (Wien, 

 1898), pp. 1-64, and by H. Usener, Die Sinlfluthsagen (Bonn, 1899), pp. 138-180. 



^ Aegyptiaca, book v. frag. 6 {Frag. hist. Gr., III. 510 f. Miiller). 



* Pausanias, III. 25. 7, recalls that among the votive offerings at Taenarum 

 " is a bronze statue of the minstrel Arion. Herodotus tells his story from 

 hearsay, but I have actually seen the Dolphin at Poroselene that was mauled 

 by fishermen and testified its gratitude to the boy who healed it. I saw that 

 Dolphin answer to the boy's call, and carry him on his back when he chose to 

 ride." 



