They refused to listen
when he would have spoken with them as a friend, and laughed him
to scorn when he begged that they take heed to their own lives.
I cannot understand why our people were so crazy. Even though
Nathaniel and I were but lads, with no experience of adventure
such as was before us, we could realize that unless a man plants he
may not reap, and because we had been hungry many a time in London
town, we knew full well that when the season had passed there was
like to be a famine among us.
I can well understand, now that I am a man grown, why our people
were so careless regarding the future, for everywhere around us was
food in plenty. Huge flocks of wild swans circled above our heads,
trumpeting the warning that winter would come before gold could be
found. Wild geese, cleaving the air in wedge shaped line, honked
harshly that the season for gathering stores of food was passing,
while at times, on a dull morning, it was as if the waters of the
bay were covered completely with ducks of many kinds.
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