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The slave of seventy years, knowing her entreaties will be in vain, approaches her mistress with the fervency of a child, and grasping warmly her hand, stammers out: "Da da dah Lord bless um, Missus. Tan't many days fo'h we meet in t'oder world good-bye." "God bless you good-bye, Molly. Remember what I have told you so many times long suffering and forbearance make the true Christian.

'most dying! would breathe his last! warn't no help fo'h him! must die, sartin!! Such a ringing and dinging of bells, such a tampering up stairs, such a puffing and blowing of excited citizens as followed, never was heard or seen before. Although in a tight place, I was neither alarmed nor crest fallen.

Swiggs settles her head and shoulders into it, saying, "there!" "Glad'um suit fo'h true!" retorts the negress, her heavy lips and sullen face giving out the very incarnation of hatred. "Now don't make a noise when you go out." Rebecca in reply says she is "gwine down to da kitchen to see Isaac," and toddles out of the room, gently closing the door after her. Resignedly Mrs.

"Are those the lights of the town?" panted one of the masters, a throb of hope in his breast. The tall man paused; the others came up beside him. He stretched a long arm in the direction of the twinkling lights, far ahead. "Yas, 'r," was all that he said. "How far?" demanded the other laboriously. "'Bout fo'h mile." "Road get any better?" "Yas, 'r." "Can we make it by nine, think?" "Yas, 'r."

The slave of seventy years, knowing her entreaties will be in vain, approaches her mistress with the fervency of a child, and grasping warmly her hand, stammers out: "Da-da-dah Lord bless um, Missus. Tan't many days fo'h we meet in t'oder world-good-bye." "God bless you-good-bye, Molly. Remember what I have told you so many times-long suffering and forbearance make the true Christian.