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Show Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. ''Don't you tir a step, you little ·wrcteh ! ' said he. Tho chihl drew nearer to n1e, ancl put his arn1s ronucl n1 , as if he wanted to protect 1ne. ~~his \Va ·too tnnch for 111y enrnged1nastcr. lie caught hun up an<l hurled hinl aero~s the roo1n. I thought he \vas deacl, and rushed towards hin1 to take hint up. ' ~ ot yet!" excla i1necl tho doc Lor. " Let hin1 lie there t ill he co1ne to." " Let n1e go ! Let 1ue go ! '' I ~crc~unc<.l, " or I will rai~e the \\hole house." I ,·Lrnggled a1H.l got away; but he clinched n1e again. Smneho<ly opened the door, and he rcleasecl n1e. I pickecl up 1uy inscn.·ible child, and ·whenl Lurnecl n1y tonnentor \vas gone. Anxiously I L>ent o-ver the little fonn, so pale and still ; and \rhen the l rown eye. at last opened, 1 clon't kno\Y \vhethcr I \Ya ' Y ry happy. A.ll the doctor'· fonner persecutions \Yore renewed. lie c:unc n1orning, noon, anclnight. No jealous lover ever watched a rival n1ore clo ely than he watched 1ue and the unknown slavehol<1er, with \vhon1 he accused n1e of wishing to get up an intrigue. \Vhen n1y grancln1other was out of the way he tiearcheu CYery roon1 to find hinL In one or hi.· Yisit~, he happeneu to find a young girl, 'rhon1 he had sold to a trauer a few day · prcYiou ·. II is stat01nell L was, that he sold. her because ·he had been too f<.uniliar \ri Lh the overseer. Slto had hn.<l a bitter life \ViLh hin1, and was glad to be ·old. She had no 1nother, and no ncar tlos. She had lJeen torn fron1 all her fmnily year · before. .A few friends had ent red into l>Oncl.· for her .·nJeiy, if tho traclor ·would all ow her to spend with th01n the tin1o that intervened !Jetwcen ... Continued Perfecutions. 125 her , ale and the gathering up of hi ~~ lnunan stock. Such a favor \ras rarely 0Tnntf~d. It ~a \'e<l the trader the oxpe11. ·o of 1)oar<l ant l .ia il fees, and though the mnount \vas snutll, it \Va" n, weigh Ly cousicleratiou in a slave-trader's 1uincl. Dr. Ftint alway · had an aver~ion to 1neoting ~l n vcs after he had old thctn. lie ordered l~o~e out of Lhc house; but h \vas 110 lon?·er lwr lHa. ·tc..~ r, and she Look no notice of hiu1. For once Lh ' c rushetl llo:-:c wa. · the conqueror. IIi.· gray eye· fla shed angrily 11pon h r; Lut that \Vas the extent of hi· pow .r. "IIow ca1nc thi. girl here ? '' he exclain1ou. " \\That righL hucl you io allow it, \vhon you knew l had soltl her'? '' I answered "This is n1y granthuothor',· l10u.·e, an<l Roe can1e to soc her. 1 have no right to turn any body out of cloor-·, that co n1e: h( re for l1one -t purpo:-;os." lie gn.Ye 1ne tho blow that \voulcl haYe fallen upon Rose if !-.ihe had still been lti.· ~l a\'e. 1\fy oT:.Ul<.bnothcr' · attention hacl been attrncte(l by loud Yoiees, and she enter din tiu1e to ·ee a .·m.:onci blow d alt. She was 110t a \von1an to let ~ueh an outrage, in her own house, go unrebnkccl. Tho doclor undertook to explain that I harl been in. olen L. II r indignant feelings ro,·e higher an<l higher, anJ finally boiled oYer in \vords. "Get out of 1ny hou ... c!" she oxclaiinc<l. " Go hotne, and take care of your \vifc auJ children, an<l you will have enough to do, without \vatching n1y f<.unily." lie threw the birth of nly children jn her fnco, and accu~cd ber of' ,·anctioniuo· the life l wa~ leading. She told hin1 1 \va · li,·iug \Yi Lh her l>y con1pubion of l1is wife; that he 11cedn't ac;cu ·e her, for ho was tho one to hlan1e ; he wu::; the one who had eu, tu:;ed all the 11 * |