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Show Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl. I told her it \ras u~clcs to try ; but she begged rne not . Sl · n •1<.1 ~hn woul<l cro to the doctor, and to o·tYC 1.1 P· . lC Su J .b , r cnbu. nLl l'· l 1< no· •:tnd h OW f~u t1du1ly she h ad ,'Cl'YOd l1tll lOW J o'- . f .1 <.l how she had taken h er own baby 1n the :unt y, an . . . , ] 1- • ·t to nourish lns ·wdc. he woul(l tell frotn 1cr urcas . 1 1 lnn1 d 1 out of the f~unily so long they \Yould Ht .. )CCll . . not · . tll'"~ t he would pay thcn1 ior rny tunc, lUlSS lllC, <-t. an<.l t l 1C n1oncy \',yr ould 11rocurc a ·wornan w• ho h ad n1orc strcncrljil .r , tllc ·r· ~tlaLion than 1 ha< l. I lJccwred her 1 101 • li . . 0 . • b t ·]1not to go , u , c lJ r 'i~"t c<.l in aying, "li e \Yrll h ten 1 . ,, '' }1c went and \vas trcatcLl as 1 ex-to me, 1nua. ' . . pectcJ. lie coolly listc.ncu to what she sa t~l, but den10d l t Ire told her that \vhat h e dHl was for n1y rcr rcqucs . . . good, that ll1Y feelin g. ·were. entirely al>o~~c ~l~~ ~r:~a-tion, a.ncl that on the plantatron 1 ·w?uld 1 eccn c tr ea.t- 111011t that wa snitahlc to nly bohaYlor. ~Iy gran<ltnothcr wa, n1uch cast down. I had nry cerci hope·; uut I rnu t fio·ht rny battle alone .. l had a won1an's pride, and a n1oLhcr's love for 1ny ~1uldrcn; and I rcsol reel that out of the darkne of th1s hour a brio·hter dawn should rise for thmn. ~[y 1na~tcr hall po,~cr and law on hi · side; I bad a detern1incd will. Thoro is rnight in eaeh. '· r f Scenes at the Plantation. XVI. SCENES .Arr TIIE PLA.N'r.A.TION. EARLY the next n1orning I left n1y grandmother's with my youngest chilcJ. ~Iy boy \Vas ill, anu I left him behind. I had n1any sal thoughts as tlic old wagon j olted on. Hitherto, I had sulfercd alone; now, my little one was to be trcatcJ as a . lave. .A.s \VC drew ncar the great b ou se, 1 thought of the titnc when I was forn1crly sent there out of rev cn;rc. 1 wonder '<l for what purpose I 'vas n o\Y en t. 1 could not Loll. 1 resolved to obey orders so far as duty rcquir <1; but within myself, I detcrrni ned to n1ake 1ny tay a · ·hort as po sible. ~fr. Flint \vas waiting to receive u.·, an(l told me to follo·w h i1n up . tai rs to rccci \·c or<1u r. · for the day. My little Ellen \vas l e ft l>elowin the k iL·1wn. It was a change for h er, ·who l1acl alway.· lJcen f.:O carefully tended. My young rnastcr ·ai<l she n1ight an1u~n herself in the yard. rrhis \VaS kind of hin1, ,·incc the child \vas hateful to his sight. ~[y task \VUti to fit up the house for the reception of the bride. In the rnidst of sheets, tablecloth s, to·wcls, dra1 cry, and carpctiug, n1y h ead was as busy planning, as were 1ny fingers with the needle. At noon I 'vas allowed. to go to Ellen. She had sobbed herself to c:lccp. I h uar<.l ~Ir. Flint say to a u cighbor, "rye got her down h ere, and I'll soon take the to\vn notions out of h er h ca<.l. ~iy father is partly to Llarne for her non cnsc. lie ought to have broke h er in long ago." The r Clnark |