eas\-," Cooper makes Miles Walliiigroid say, to describe the affection of an attached slave, which has blended with it the pride of a jjartisan, the solicitude of a parent and the blindness of a lover." A common custom amonp; the Dutch was to assign to each child in the household, when it had reached six or eight years, a slave of the same age and sex, who clung to the little msister or mistress with an affection that was fully returned and, in many instances, lasted through life.

There is a fact connected with the institution of slavery in the colony of New York which is too honorable for our forefathers to be omitted here, for in no section was it more true than in Westchester. The slaves lived under the same roof and partook of the same food as their nuistcrs ; they were allowed much familiarity and indulged in great freedom of

I had them," says he, "were very free and I'auiiliar ; sometimes sauntering among the whites at meal-time, with hat on head, and freely joining occasionally in conversation, as if they were one and all of the same lK)Uschold." ' "Yet," says Watson, "no case had ever occurred of 'amalgamation,' and no instance of

j mixed colour had been seen until produced by some in the British army coming among them. The first

{ instance of the kind j)roduced emotions of surprise

j and dislike."

One of the Old World customs brought over by the early settlers was the investiture "by turtf and twigg,"