They will beg of blacks more provident and industrious than themselves, or they will steal their poultry and rob their provision grounds at night; but they would disdain to associate with them.

Doubtless these _sans culottes_ swell in their dangling rags with the haughty consciousness that they possess _white skins_.

What proud reflections they must have, as they pursue their barefoot way, thinking on their high lineage, and running back through the long list of their illustrious ancestry whose notable badge was a _white skin_! No wonder they cannot stop to bow to the passing stranger.

These sprouts of the Caucasian race are known among the Barbadians by the rather ungracious name of _Red Shanks_.

They are considered the pest of the island, and are far more troublesome to the police, in proportion to their members, than the apprentices.