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Show 30 •rut: 1.1nEit'l'Y nt1J.L. my side. It was ncar twelve o'clock, when, after n light rap on the door, it slowly opened to aclmit the bowed, half frozen frame of one of th~ blackest women I remember to have seen. She wore a warm, quaint looking plaid, and a close black silk hood. My little hoy placed • chair for her by the stove, and when she was warm enough to talk, both he and my baby girl listened, awestruck, to the broken accents which told the following story. " Arc you a Guinea negro? " was my first question, for that shrivelled frame might well haYC seen more than a century. "No, missis/' she answered, "but my granny was, and a thousand times blacker than I, though I dare say young master, there, thinks I 'm black enough. They ketcbed hcr-ln! I 'rc hecrd her tell many a time, how she left her babies sleeping in her hut, while her husbaml was gone away to fish. She warn't afraid of 110thing, and she went down to the shore a-gathering broom-sedge. 'fho pirates had SIJrcad bright-colored kerchiefs over the bushes. A RIIEEZ~1 FR011 LAK.E QNTAHIQ, 31 'l'lwy stuck to the thorns, and while slJC was a-pulling of 'em off, they bound her hunds, and carried her away to the hold of tho ship. 1\lany a dead body was lifted from her side and flung overboard during the long, hot voyage; but she lived, liYcd to see more children of hern, in old Virginny." "And where were you born? " 01 In 1\faryland, missis. In !frederick County, fourteen miles from Noland's ferry. It wus old Gineral Nelson's place, and I was l\Iiss J cuny's maid. They were good people nnd kind to me. But at last a Mr. 1\r aters come along, and my young missis was married, and I wont with her to Georgetown. l\lr. Waters was a Methodist, and his church forbid him to hold a. Slave, unless he freed her when she como of ago. But after I had nussed l\Iiss Jenny's four babies, she died away like a rose in tho summer, and old Col. Hook, of Frederick County, who had bought my mother, como down to buy me, too. 1\fy time was not quito out, and |