Have-Nots
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The Haves And The
"A pastor in the province of Atua, being a handy, busy man, bought a boat for 100 dollars, 50 of which he paid down. Pre sently, after relatives came to him on a visit and took a fancy to his new pos session. 'We have long been wanting a boat,' they said. 'Give us this one'. So when the visit was done they departed in the boat. „ „ , . .
“The pastor, meanwhile, travelled into Savaii the best way he could, sold a parcel of land, and begged mats among his other relatives, to pay the price of the re mainder of the boat that was no longer “Some customs, it might be argued, being double edged, will ultimately right themselves. But it is otherwise in practice.
Such folk as the pastors harpy relatives will generally have a boat, and will never have paid for it; such men as the pastor may have sometimes paid for a boat, but they will never have one. It is there it is with us at home; , the . me ?* ur ® abuse of either system is the blackness of the individual heart.'' R. L. about Samoa, in "A Footnote To History , 1892.