Here are some specimens of the amenity with which Keats was treated in Blackwood's Magazine: 'His friends, we understand, destined him to the career of medicine, and he was bound apprentice some years ago to a worthy apothecary in town....

" "That I will, right willingly," replied the apprentice, rushing before the younger Bloundel, and flourishing his formidable cudgel.

The planters generally are doing very little to prepare the apprentices for freedom; but some are doing very much to unprepare them.

"Then let them out by the same way," rejoined the apprentice.

But when his friends did understand His fond and foolish mind, They sent him up to fair London An apprentice for to bind.

He seemed to take delight in flogging the apprentices.

After making a number of statements in reference to the apprenticeship there, Mr. W. stated that there had been repeated instances of planters emancipating all their apprentices.

Its main design is rather to benefit the apprentice than the master.

He spoke of the habit of exercising arbitrary power, which being in continual play up to the time of abolition, had become so strong that managers even yet gave way to it, and frequently punished their apprentices, in spite of all penalties.

In other words, five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade, business, or calling.

" "To Saint Paul's at this hour!" cried the apprentice.

" "And when are these fires to be lighted?" asked the apprentice.

If a master called his apprentice "you scoundrel," or, "you huzzy," the magistrate would either fine him for it or reprove him sharply in the presence of the apprentice.

In the course of the day we had opportunities of seeing the apprentices in almost every situationin the field, at the mill, in the boiling-house, moving to and from work, and at rest.

If the magistrates, instead of encouraging the apprentices to complain and be insolent, would join their influence to support the authority of the planters, things might go on nearly as smoothly as before.

In most of the trades the master could only receive one apprentice in his house besides his own son.

When it is considered that most of the commitments are for trivial offences, and that the district contains thirteen thousand apprentices, certainly we have grounds to conclude that the state of morals in Barbadoes is decidedly superior to that in our own country.

" Instead of surrendering the implement, Chowles flourished it over his head with the intention of striking the apprentice, but the latter nimbly avoided the blow, and snatching it from his grasp, ran back to the plague-pit.

An estate of nearly seven hundred acres, with extensive agriculture, and a large manufactory and distillery, employing three hundred apprentices, and supporting twenty-five horses, one hundred and thirty head of horned cattle, and hogs, sheep; and poultry in proportion, is manifestly a most complicated machinery.

In some islands, as for instance in St. Christopher's and Tortola, it is spread over six days of the week in proportions of seven and a half hours per day, thus leaving the apprentice mere shreds of time in which he can accomplish nothing for himself.

" "Then let him have a chance of getting better," returned the apprentice.

" "Dolt!" exclaimed the apprentice, "I said no such thing."

A very sever punishment frequently adopted, is requiring the apprentice to make up for the time during which he is confined.

Seeing how matters stood, and that victory was pretty certain to declare itself for his patron, Pillichody returned, and, attacking the apprentice, by their combined efforts, he was speedily disarmed.

The special magistrate said that he was then engaged in classifying the apprentices of the different estates in his district.