_Monday morning he is startled from his dreams by the old "shell-blow" of slavery_, and he arises to endure another week of toil, alternated by the same tantalizing mockeries of freedom.

Is not this applying the _hot iron to the nerve_?
5.

But, lastly, the apprenticeship system, as if it would apply the match to this magazine of combustibles, holds out the reward of liberty to every apprentice who shall by any means provoke his master to punish him a second time.
[NOTE .-- In a former part of this work--the report of Antigua--we mentioned having received information respecting a number of the apprenticeship islands, viz., Dominica, St.Christopher's, Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla, and Tortola, from the Wesleyan Missionaries whom we providentially met with at the annual district meeting in Antigua.

We designed to give the statements of these men at some length in this connection, but we find that it would swell our report to too great a size.

It only remains to say, therefore, in a word, that the same things are generally true of those colonies which have been detailed in the account of Barbadoes.