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OUR ISLAND STORY ' ,l , 159'

Margaret—- That you would let us go the New Land, And there we can together live our life

_ In any humble work or menial toil.

. Together straining, that the coming time May overgrow the past;

Roverbal—

' (Laughs bitterly) Why not? Among my colonists are, choicest thieves, Cut-throats and, galley-slaves, and monstrous drabs," Trulls of the camp, and all the market jades, That could be found in all the prisons of France. 'Why not, I say? There’s room enough'for you.”

This is a ' vivid scene, It enlists the reader’s interest and sympathy and, excites his imagination. The poet who wrote, it was evidently possessed of the rare gift of dramatic power. Mar- garet’s fate is described by the poet in the following scene between - DeRoberval and the captain of the caravel: V

Captain I. Alphonse— 1 Come ashore, sir, the ships ride at anchor, All three made‘ifast and a clean bill of health. ' Robervalé—

Any trouble with your convict crews? Alf. Nothing to speak of; a revolt or two; Occasion to fire down the hatches twice;

- Two men thrust through a porthole; an attempt To fire the magazine; and by the way, , I had to tuck three hands to the yard arm; some mutiny on board the smaller ships;

But on the whole nothing to speak of. ‘

- Rob. In virtue of the; powersconferred on ,me My clerk shall write you out an amnesty For these most necessary instances,

A man and woman, prisoners, who were given _ With privately sealed orders, what of them? Alf. Alasl Sir——- -