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Show 94 Incidents in the I..ife of a Slave Girl. it. I was too ill in mind and body to enjoy 1ny friends as I had done. For some weeks I "'as unable to lcaYc my bod. I could not have any doctor bnt n1y 1nastor, and I would not ha-ve hin1 sent for. At last, alanned by n1y incroa ing illness, they sent for hitn. I 'va very weak and nervous ; and as soon as he entered the room, I began to screa1n. They told hi1n n1y state was very critical. He had no wi ·h to hasten 1110 out of tho world, and he wi thdrcw. When 1ny babe was born, they said it \vas pron1ature. It weighed only four pounds ; but God lot it live. I heard tho doctor say I could not nrvi vc till 1norning. I had often prayed for death; but nO\V I did not want to die, unless 1ny child could die too. ~fany \Yoeks passed before I was able to leave n1y bed. I was a mere wreck of 1ny forn1or self. For a year there was scarcely a day ·when I was free fron1 chills and fcYer. My babe also was sickly. Hi little litnbs \vcro often racked with pain. Dr. Flint continued hi · visitf', to look after my health ; and he did not fail to retnind n1e that 1ny child was an addition to his stock of ·lares. I felt too feeble to dispute ·with hin1, and li ·toned to his retnark in ilence. His visits \VCrc less frcq uent; bnt hi busy pirit could not rcn1ain quiet. lie etnployed my brother in his office, and he \vas made the n1edium of frequent notes and1nc sages to n1c. Willi c.un was a bright lad, and of 1nuch u c to the doctor. lie had learned to put np n1cdicincs, to leech, cup, and bleed. lie had taught hin1 elf to read and spell. I was pron<l of n1y ln·other; and. the old doctor suspected as n1nch. One day, when I had not seen hin1 for scn~ra1 weeks, I heard his steps approaching the The New Tie to I.Jife. 95 door. I drcad.ed the en conn tcr, ana hid 1nyscl f. He inquired for n1c, of courf'c; but I \va.· nowh rc to be found. He went to hi ' office, and despatched \Yillian1 with a note. The color 1nountcd to n1y brother' · face when he gave it to 1nc; and he said, " Don't you hate 1ne, Linda, for bringing you these things ? " I told hin1 I could not blan1c hi1n ; he was a slave and obliged to obey his rna tor's \vill. The note ordered me to co1ne to his office. I \vent. IIc dcn1andod to know where I was when he called. I told hi1n I \Vas at hon1e . . lie .flc\v into a pas ion, and said he knew better. Then he launched out upon his u nal thcn1c _ my cri1nos against hitn, and 1ny ingratitude for his forbcaranc~. ~rhc la·ws were laid do\vn to 1110 anew, and I was chsnu ed. I felt humiliated that 1ny brother should ·tancl by, and listen to such language a would be addre cd only to a slave. Poor boy! IIc ,vas po:Verless to defend Inc ; but I sa \V tho tear , which he vmnly strove to keep back. This n1anifcstation of feeling irritated the doctor. vVillian1 could do nothinO' to please hin1. One n1orning he did not arrive at ~he office so early as u sual ; and that circnn1stance afforded his 1na tor an opportunity to vent his spleen. l-Ie was pnt in jail. The next day my brother sent a trader to the doctor, with a roque t to be sold. IIis master was greatly incensed at what he called his insolence. IIc said he had put hi1n t here to reflect npon hi~ bad conduct, and he certainly was not o·ivinO' anv ev1de f b b ... . nee o repentance. For two days 110 haras. od himself to find somebody to do hi office \York· hnt every thing went \Vrong ·without \Villin1n. lie' \Vas released, and ordered to take his old stand, with 1nany |