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house stopped for want of liquor. I found on my 

 return that for this offence Toby had received six 

 lashes, which Toby did not mind three straws. 

 But as his fault amounted to an act of downright 

 rebellion, I thought that it ought not by any means 

 to be passed over so lightly, and that Toby ought 

 to be made to mind. I took no notice for some 

 days; but the Easter holidays had been deferred till 

 my return, and only began here on Friday last. On 

 that day, as soon as the head governor had blown 

 the shell, and dismissed the negroes till Monday 

 morning, he requested the pleasure of Mr. Toby's 

 company to the hospital, where he locked him up 

 in a room by himself. All Saturday and Sunday 

 the estate rang with laughing, dancing, singing, 

 and huzzaing. Salt-fish was given away in the 

 morning ; the children played at ninepins for 

 jackets and petticoats in the evening; rum and 

 sugar was denied to no one. The gumbys thun- 

 dered ; the kitty-katties clattered ; all was noise 

 and festivity; and all this while, (t qualis mcerens 

 Philomela," sat solitary Toby gazing at his four 

 white walls ! Toby had not minded the lashes ; 

 but the loss of his amusement, and the dis- 

 grace of his exclusion from the fete operated on 

 his mind so forcibly, that when on the Monday 

 morning his door was unlocked, and the chief 

 governor called him to his work, not a word would 

 he deign to utter; let who would speak, there he 

 sat motionless, silent, and sulky. However, upon 



