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In South Carolina, if any free negro harbor, conceal, or entertain, any runaway slave, or a slave charged with any criminal matter, he forfeits ten pounds for the first day, and twenty shillings for every succeeding day.
"But of course she either dreamed it, or saw some one she thought was that runaway boy," Mr. Bobbsey said, afterward. "It's all nonsense to think he was on our boat." Snap, who had not been allowed to go to the rescue, much as he had wanted to, leaped about Flossie, barking and wagging his tail in joy. "Anybody would think he'd done it all," said Bert. "Say, Harry, you're all right!
Clarkson thought a great deal of Isom, so while he was in the kitchen eating, she went in and had a long talk with him about how he got along since he had been away, as they supposed. As I have said, in general, when runaway slaves came home themselves, they were not whipped, but were either handcuffed or put in stocks, and locked up for two or three days.
There is a runaway, and before the steeds can be reined the phaeton is upset. No one is hurt, and in a few minutes the equipage is restored. Nevertheless, the composer cannot control in himself a few sighs for the new coat of varnish now so rudely scratched. Franck was of another temper. The impulse that drove him to make music was not so weak and pliable.
The colonel released Bart's arm, but with a desperate groan. It was evident he was not fully satisfied. "Sure you'll forget It!" he persisted, very much perturbed. "I don't mean my abusing you, or the runaway, or or I mean I had an accident after I left you at the express office. Someone hailed me but you know, you know!" The colonel cast a penetrating look on Bart, who shook his head negatively.
HAVING seen their prisoners safely behind the bars, Si and Shorty breathed more freely than they had since starting out in the morning, and Si remarked, as he folded up the receipt for them and placed it in his pocket-book: "That drove's safely marketed, without the loss of a runaway or a played-out. Purty good job o' drovin', that. Pap couldn't do better'n that with his hogs.
There was a man living in Savannah when I was there, who kept a large number of dogs for no other purpose than to hunt runaway negroes. And he always had enough of this work to do, for hundreds of runaways are never found, but could he get news soon after one had fled, he was almost sure to catch him. And this fear of the dogs restrains multitudes from running off.
At the end of three weeks, the boys accompanied a party of their friends to other points at which the fugitives were gathered. Altogether they found that, in that part of the island, there were some hundreds of natives, with about forty or fifty runaway negroes.
Three girls, so wound together as to look like one, lay on one side of the wrecked vehicle. "Dorothy!" gasped Rose-Mary. "Are you safe!" "Yes, but you Nita and Edna?" gasped Dorothy, pantingly. "I think Nita has fainted," replied Rose-Mary. "But Edna is all right. Where is Tavia?" "Safe," answered Dorothy. "A strange man stopped the runaway. Tavia is helping hold the horse.
After repeated failures he received a sounding blow upon the least bony portion of his person: the crowd laughed long and loud, and the pretending "knight-at-arms" retired in confusion. Darkness fell, but no caravan appeared: it had been delayed by a runaway mule, perhaps by the desire to restrain my vagrant propensities, and did not arrive till midnight.
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