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"'We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we

common dogs are by those superior Beings--taxed by him without

mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our

corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our

wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame

bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when

we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the

door barred and the shutters closed, that his people should not

see it and take it from us--I say, we were so robbed, and hunted,

and were made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful

thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should

most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our

miserable race die out!'