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Show 1<16 UNCLE TOM'S CAlllN : OR, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in 1·cal sympathy? "My good fellow," said Mrs. Shelby, "I can't give you anything to do you any good. If I give you money, it will only be taken from you. But I tell you solemnly, and before God, that I will keep trace of you, and bring you back as soon as I can command the money ; -and, till then, trust in God!" Here the beys called out that Mas'r Haley was coming, and then an unceremonious kick pushed open the door. Haley stood there in very ill humor, having ridden bard the night before, and being not at all pacified by his ill success in re-capturing his prey. "Come," said he, " yo nigger, ye 'r ready 1 Servant, ma'am! " said he, taking off his hat, as be saw Mrs. Shelby. Aunt Chloe shut and corded the box, and, getting up, looked gruilly on the trader, her tears seeming suddenly turned to sparks of fire. Tom rese up meekly, te follow his new master, and raised up his heavy box on his shoulder. His wife took the baby in her arms to go with him to the wagon, and the children, still crying, trailed on behind. Mrs. Shelby, walking up to the trnder, detained him for a few moments, talking with him in an ea.rnest manner; and while she was thus talking, tho whole fitmily party proceeded to a wagon, that stood ready harnessed at the doer. A crowd of all the old and young bands on the place stood gathered around it, to bid farewell to their old associate. Tom had been looked up te, both as a head servant and a Christian toocber, by all the place, and there was much honest sympathy and grief about him, particularly among tho women. LIFE AMOXG TUB LOWLY. 147 " 'Vhy, Chloe, you bar it better 'n we tlo! " said one of the women, who had. been weeping freely, noticing the gloomy calmness with which Aunt Chloe stood by tho wagon. "I 's done 1ny tears! 11 she said, looking grimly at the traller, who was coming up. " I does not feel to cry 'fore llat nr old limb, no how ! '' " Get in ! " said Haley to Tom, as he strode through the crowd of servants, who looked at him with lowering brows. '!om got in, and Haley, drawing out from under the wagon seat a heavy pair of shackles, made them fast around each ankle. A smothered groan of indignation ran through the whole circle, and Mrs. Shelby spoke from the verandah,- " Mr. Haley, I assure you that precaution is entirely unnecessary.'' " Do'n know, ma'am; I 've lost one five hundred dollars from this yer place, and I can't afford to run no more risks." " What else could she spect on him?" .,;d Aunt Chloe, indignantly, while the two boys, who now seemed to comprehend at once their father's destiny, clung to her gown, sobbing and groaning vehemently. "I'm sorry," said Tom, "that Mas'r George happened to be away." George had gone to spend two or three days with a companion on a neighboring estate, and having departed early in the morning, before Tom's misfortune had been made public, had left without hearing of it. "Give my love to ~fas'r George," he said, earnestly. Haley whippod up the horse, and, with a steady, mournful look, fixed to the last on the old place, Tom was whirled a. way. Mr. Shelby at this time was not at home. He had sold |