He is now a member of the council, and acting attorney for about twenty estates.

He remarked that he had always desired emancipation, and had prepared himself for it; but that it had proved a greater blessing than he had expected.

His apprentices did as much work as before, and it was done without the application of the whip.

He had not had any cases of insubordination, and it was very seldom that he had any complaints to make to the special magistrate.

"The apprentices." said he, "understand the meaning of law, and they regard its authority." He thought there was no such thing in the island as a _sense of insecurity_, either as respected person or property.