274 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



artificers in England have clone, without making 

 any stijouhitions for the future. These blacks, 

 then, who were certainly ^' brothers " in spirit to 

 Messrs. Ogger, Poclger, Badlaw, Dilk, and Dodger, 

 and similar misleaders of deluded labourers, after 

 they had cut the crop, very well knew that the 

 croj) must perish if not immediately made into 

 sugar; so they went to the attorney again, with 

 an increased and impossible demand for a further 

 bribe, so large in amount, that the attorney 

 feared to comply without first obtaining the sanc- 

 tion of his employer, who Avas robbed just as 

 much as if he had been stopped on the highway 

 and his purse taken from him, not by a single 

 footpad, but by a force of footpads which rendered 

 resistance unavailing. 



Those who yield to strikes in the first instance 

 by their own cowardice, entail upon others a 

 terrible misfortune. 



Though the work I am now writing is not 

 a political work, I cannot help making this 

 allusion to the times political before I go 

 on to notice the change in the seasons^ 

 and in the habits and interests of beasts and 

 birds. 



