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Iiedient to refuse offers, only privately sanctioned by 
authority. 
Fancy an indulgent mother leaving her child with a 
dentist, authorizing him to draw his loose tooth, and 
give him a sugar-plum if he was quite willing. She 
then, instead of explaining to the boy how advantageous 
it would be for him, and herself kindly persuading him 
to have it out, leaves the room with nurse, who is told 
to whisper in his ear as she goes out, that mamma says, 
as it might stop him from going to see the pantomime, 
she'd have him know it's against law for the dentist to 
drag his tooth out if he doesn't like. Of course Master 
Tommy hesitates, and then plucks up courage to sit 
down, but at last sturdily refuses. And when Mr. Cart- 
wright remonstrates, and kindly asks the boy's reason, 
he sobs out what nurse told him ma' said. 
The theory was advanced by some persons, and 
among them were the greater number of the missionaries, 
that the moving from the 'pas would interfere with the 
religious duties of the natives. Surely a far-sighted and 
benevolent Protector of Aborigines would have jumped 
at the chance afforded him of establishing the religious 
as well as secular welfare of the natives on a more per- 
manent footing, by removing them to improved resi- 
dences on the native reserves, with convenient chapels 
and schools supported by the income from those parts 
not occupied, and with perhaps the white man's church, 
or the residence of some respectable and moral families, 
as examples on the neighbouring sections. Whereas 
the joa Pipitea, in which Mr. Clarke virtually advised 
them to remain, was only separated by an open stockade 
from the yard of the jail, in which felons were constantly 
walking, contained the police-court within its fence, and 
was contiguous to the beach, with its riotous pot-houses 
and its boat-loads of drunken sailors. 
