If we have no rain, the crops _must inevitably_ fail.

_But we always depend upon the laborers_.
On account of the stimulus to industry which wages afford, there is far less feigned sickness than there was during slavery.

When slaves, the negroes were glad to find any excuse for deserting their labor, and they were incessantly feigning sickness.

The sick-house was thronged with real and pretended invalids.

After '34, it was wholly deserted.