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Show 284 UNC1~E 'f0i\11S CABIN: OR, - -- -- ------ "Hu.rd timeR here, ~1as'r ! " said tho first. "Do1 1Yias'r, buy us, please ! " "I can't!- I can't! " said George, with difficulty, motion-ing them off; 11 it's impossible!" The poor fellows looked dejected, anu walked off in silence. "'Vitncss, eternal God!" said George, kneeling on the grave of his poor friend; "oh, witness, that, from this hour, I will do 11Jftat one man can to ddvc out this curse of slav-ery from my land!" There is no monument to mark tho last resting-place of our friend. lie needs nona! Ilis Lord knows where he lies, aml will raise him up, immortnl, to uppcar with him when he shall appear in his glory. Pity him not ! Such a life and death is not for pity ! Not in the riches of omnipotence is tho chief glory of God; but in self-denying, suffering love ! And blessed arc the men whom he calls to fellowship with him, hearing their cross after him with patience. Of such it is written, "Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall he comforted." LH'E AMONG 'l'IIE LOWLY. 285 CHAPTER XLII. .A:S AUTUE:STlO GUOST STOnY. FoR some remarkable reason, ghostly legends were uncommonly rife, about this time, among the servants on Legree~ a place. It was whisperingly asserted that footsteps, in tho dead of night, had been heard descending the garret stairs, and patrolling the house. In vain the doors of the upper entry had been locked; the ghost either carried a duplicate key in its pocket, or availed .itself of a ghost's immemorial privilege of coming through the keyhole, and promenaded as before, with a freedom that was alarming. Authorities were somewhat divided, as to the outward form of the spirit, owing to a custom quite prevalent among negroes, -an~, for aught we know, among whites, too,-of invariably shuttmg the eyes, and covering up heads under blankets, petticoats~ or whatever else might come in usc for a shelter, on these occasiOns. Of course, as everybody knows, when tho bodily eyes ~rc thus ont of the lists, the spiritual eyes aro uncommonly VIvaciOus and perspicuous; and, therefore, there were abundance of full-length portraits of the ghost, abundantly sworn nnd tcsllfied to, which, as is often the case with portraits, agr~ed w1th each other in no particular, except the common fam1ly peculiarity of the ghost tribe,- the wearing of a wltite slteet. The poor souls were not versed in ancient history, |