"'No,' he'll say, 'not now; we have jist sent an English
one over, for we find it's a good thing that.'

"'One word more,' sais you, 'and I have done. If your
army officers out there, get leave of absence, do you
stop their pay?'

"'No.'

"'Do you sarve native colonists the same way?'

"'No, we stop half their salaries.'

"'Exactly,' sais you, 'make them feel the difference.
Always make a nigger feel he is a nigger, or he'll get
sassy, you may depend. As for patronage,' sais you, 'you
know as well as I do, that all that's not worth havin',
is jist left to poor colonist. He is an officer of militia,
gets no pay and finds his own fit out. Like Don Quixote's
tailor, he works for nothin' and finds thread. Any other
little matters of the same kind, that nobody wants, and
nobody else will take; if Blue-nose makes interest for,
and has good luck, he can get as a great favour, to
conciliate his countrymen. No, Minister,' sais you, 'you
are a clever man, every body sais you are a brick; and
if you ain't, you talk more like one, than any body I
have seen this while past. I don't want no office myself,
if I did p'raps, I wouldn't talk about patronage this
way; but I am a colonist, I want to see the colonists