At length the Maroons, who were delighted to have him with them, became discontented with his absence, and for several years, during the sessions of the House of Assembly, preferred repeated complaints against him.

They do discharge their shot of courtesy.

His reputation as archmaster in deception not only makes his failure more amusing in itself, but makes it appear as the almost direct consequence of his last piece of cunning.

But the wasteground was already cleared. So the workers resolved to give up a Monday to voluntary labour to scatter rubbish all over it.