them. They soon learned to dig, and plant, and hedge in their
land, in the mode which I had set for them, and in short, to lead
good lives, so that I shall now call them the "two good men."

But when the three bad men saw, this, they were full of spite,
and came one day to tease and vex them. They told them that the
isle was their own, and that no one else had a right to build on
it, if they did not pay rent. The two good men thought at first
that they were in jest, and told them to come and sit down, and
see what fine homes they had built, and say what rent they would
ask.

But one of the three said they should soon see that they were not
in jest, and took a torch in his hand, and put it to the roof of
the but, and would have set it on fire, had not one of the two
good men trod the fire out with his feet. The bad man was in such
a rage at this, that he ran at him with a pole he had in his
hand, and this brought on a fight, the end of which was that the
three men had to stand off. But in a short time they came back,
and trod down the corn, and shot the goats and young kids, which
the poor men had got to bring up tame for their store.

One day when the two men were out, they came to their home, and
said, "Ha! there's the nest, but the birds are flown." They then
set to work to pull down both the huts, and left not a stick, nor
scarce a sign on the ground to show where the tents had stood.
They tore up, too, all the goods and stock that they could find,
and when they had done this, they told it all to the men of
Spain, and said, "You, sirs, shall have the same sauce, if you do
not mend your ways."