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"Anyway, Hannah coughed for a day or two more, and then her brother come totin' in a big bottle of med'cine. "'There! he says. 'That'll fix you! "'Where'd you get it? says she. "'Down to Henry Tubman's, he says. "'Henry Tubman! What on earth! Why, Henry Tubman's a horse doctor! "'I know he is, says Kenelm, solemn as a roostin' pullet, 'but we've been fishin' with the wrong bait.
"Ha, ha, that's a good un," he exclaimed; "trip yourself up in getting into your own trousers, will you, Deacon Tubman?" and he laughed long and merrily to himself over his little joke.
The different denominations, their pastors and location are: 1. Baptist Church, Second corner Chestnut; Rev. Brewster Adams. T. M. Tubman. Congregational, Virginia corner 5th; Rev. W. D. Trout. Episcopal, Second corner Sierra; Rev. Samuel Unsworth. 5. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Masonic Temple. F. E. Martens. Methodist Episcopal, Sierra corner 1st; Rev. W. E. Lowther.
"The last load of hay is in the barn; and all in capital order.... Washed every window in the house today. Put a quilted petticoat in the frame.... Quilted all day, but sewing seems no longer to be my calling.... Fitted out a fugitive slave for Canada with the help of Harriet Tubman." Although she filled her days, life on the farm in these stirring times seemed futile to her.
The deacon was after it in a jiffy and, seizing it in his little fat hands, held it up before his eyes and read: "A New Year's gift from Miranda." Now Miranda was the deacon's housekeeper, Mrs. Tubman having peacefully departed this life some years before, and, speaking appreciatively of the sex, a more prim, prudent, particular member of it never existed.
On the way we overtook several armed colonists, hurrying to the point of danger. Passing the foot of Mount Vaughan we reached Mount Tubman, and, ascending a steep, conical hill, found ourselves on a level space of a hundred yards in diameter, with a strong picket-fence surrounding it, and a solitary house in the centre.
However, the bravest workers on the underground railroad were black. If they were caught, especially in the South, they would have to pay the ultimate price for their heroism. The best known of all the black conductors was a brave runaway slave woman named Harriet Tubman.
I say Deacon Tubman bounced into his trousers, but, to be exact, I should say that he bounced into half of them; and, with the other half trailing behind him, he skipped to the window and, putting his little, plump, round face almost against the pane, gazed out upon the world.
These operations extended even through Tennessee into northern Georgia and Alabama. Dillingham, Josiah Henson and Harriet Tubman used these routes to deliver many a Negro from slavery. The opportunity thus offered to help the oppressed brought forward a class of anti-slavery men, who went beyond the limit of merely expressing their horror of the evil.
"New Year's, eh?" exclaimed Deacon Tubman, as he lifted himself to his elbow and peered through the frosty window pane toward the east, where the colorless morning was creeping shiveringly into sight. "New Year's, eh?" he repeated, as he hitched himself into an upright position and straightened his night-cap, that had somehow gone askew in his slumber. "Bless my soul, how the years fly!
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