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Leckler came at his call. "Mrs. Leckler," he said, "I am troubled in my mind. I in fact, I am puzzled over a matter that involves either the maintaining or relinquishing of a principle." "Well, Mr. Leckler?" said his wife, interrogatively. "If I had been a scheming, calculating Yankee, I should have been rich now; but all my life I have been too generous and confiding.
"It seems to me that Josh might have been able to get home to-night," said Mr. Leckler, walking up and down his veranda; "but I reckon it's just possible that he got through too late to catch a train." In the morning he said: "Well, he's not here yet; he must have had to do some extra work. If he doesn't get here by evening, I'll run up there."
Leckler; it all came through my kindness of heart, and your mistaken advice. But, oh, that ingrate, that ingrate!" The man of the house is about to go into the dining-room when he hears voices that tell him that his wife has gone down to give the "hired help" a threatened going over. He quietly withdraws, closes the door noiselessly behind him and listens from a safe point of vantage.
Her husband blushed and stammered for a moment, and then replied, "Well, of course, it was only twenty cents saved to him, but to a man buying his freedom every cent counts; and after all, it is not the amount, Mrs. Leckler, it's the principle of the thing." "Yes," said the lady meekly. Unto the body it is easy for the master to say, "Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther."
Leckler, who had great faith in his plasterer's ability, marveled at the speed which he had acquired the three R's. He did not know that on one of his many trips a free negro had given Josh the rudimentary tools of learning, and that since the slave had been adding to his store of learning by poring over signs and every bit of print that he could spell out.
And by such stages, hiding by day and traveling by night, helped by a few of his own people who were blessed with freedom, and always by the good Quakers wherever found, he made his way into Canada. And on one never-to-be-forgotten morning he stood up, straightened himself, breathed God's blessed air, and knew himself free! To Joshua Leckler this life in Canada was all new and strange.
Leckler," he said, "this is nothing less than a judgment on me for teaching a nigger to read and write. I disobeyed the law of my state and, as a result, not only lost my nigger, but furnished the Yankees with a smart officer to help them fight the South. Mrs. Leckler, I have sinned and been punished. But I am content, Mrs.
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