He has prudence too, and will not endure people whom he expects to betray his hospitality by insulting him afterwards in print.

But he delights in pleasing, in giving, in showing his lovely islands to all who will come and see them; Creole, immigrant, coloured or white man, Spaniard, Frenchman, Englishman, or Scotchman, each and all, will prove themselves thoughtful hosts and agreeable companions, if they be only treated as gentlemen usually expect to be treated elsewhere.

On board a certain steamer, it was once proposed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company should issue cheap six-month season tickets to the West Indies, available for those who wished to spend the winter in wandering from island to island.

The want of hotels was objected, naturally enough, by an Englishman present.

But he was answered at once, that one or two good introductions to a single island would ensure hospitality throughout the whole archipelago.
A long-legged mule, after gibbing enough to satisfy his own self- respect, condescended to trot off with us up the tramway, which lay along a green drove strangely like one in the Cambridgeshire fens.