What guarantee have you that they will not propose to feed you on damper, or some other nameless abomination of the same sort ?" "It was only the other day, in the House," said the Captain, "that you said the small squatters and freehold farmers represented the greater part of the intelligence and education of the colony, and now----" "Sir! sir!" said the Secretary, "you don't know what you are talking about.

Sir, we are not in the House now.

Are you determined, then ?" The Captain was quite determined, and they went down to the waist.

They were raising a bag of potatoes from somewhere, and the Colonial Secretary, seizing two handfuls of them, presented them to the Captain.
"If you will go," he said, "take these with you, and teach the poor benighted white savages to plant them.

So if you fall a victim to indigestion, we will vote a monument to you on the summit of the Cape, and write:--'He did not live in vain.