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Show 186 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. that those few conJs actually n1ade 1110 ·weep. I think the Inc<licincs Jid1n ~o1nc good· hut 1ny recovery wa very slow. l)ark thouo·hLs pas. e<l throngh 1ny 1nind a I lay Lher dny after day. I tried to he Lhankf'nl for n1y little cell, d i~tnal as it \Ya~, and YOn to love it, as part of the price 1 hatl paid for the rcdcn1pLiou of 1ny children. Son1cti n1cs 1 thongh t Got1 wn,s a co1n passionate Father, \Vho ·wouhl forgive n1y sins for tho sake of my sufferings. At other tin1o. , it seen1cd to mo there wa no jn t icc or n1crcy in the diYinc goYcnuncnt. I a ked why the cur e of laYory wa pcnnittccl to exist, and. ·why 1 had been .·o per ccutcd and ·wronged fro1n youth upward. 'l"'hc ·c things took the shape of Inystcry, which i to this day not ·o clear to 1ny soul as I tru t it ·will be hereafter. In the n1id t of my illnos , grand1notl1cr broke down under tho w ight of anxiety and toil. The idea of lo.-ing her, who had ahvays boon 1ny L t friend and a n1othcr to 1ny children, \vas the sore t trial I had yet had. 0, how carne tly I prayed that she 1night recover! Ilo\v hard it seou1cd, that I could not tend upon her, ·who had so long and so tenderly \vatehcd over 1110 ! One day the scrca1ns of a child nerved n1c with strength to crawl to rny peeping-hole, and I ·a\v 1ny son covercu with blood. A. fierce dog, usually kept chained, had ·oizcu ancl bitten hi1n. A. doctor \vas sent for, and I heard tho groans and scrcan1s of n1y child while tl1o \vouuds \Vero being so\vod up. 0, what torture i a 1nothcr'~ heart, to li -ten to thi and be unable to go to hin1 ! But childhood is like a day 1n ~··prin 6, aHcnl~tcly ( Still in Prifon. 187 show~r and sunshin_o. Defore night Benny \vas bright and hvely, throatcn1ng tho de ·Lruction of tho ,,oo·. d . . u b, an great wa · lu · dcl1ght \Yhon tho <loctor told hitn the next day that the dog had Litten another boy and. Leon shot. Bonny recover d frotn his \VOUIH.l ·; Lut it was long before he could walk. \Vhcn 1ny granchnoLher' · illness became known many Jallie > who were h er cu:lomers, called to brin~ her so1nc httlo co1nfort , and to inquire whether ·he had every thing she \vantod. Annt Nancy one nio·ht a keel pcnnir-·sion to ·watch with her sick n1othcr ~1d ~Irs. Flint replied, "I don't . co any need of you'r going. I can't ·pare you." But when ·he found other ladies in the neighborhood \\rcro so attentive, not wi ·hinrr to be outdone in Christian chariLy, she al o ·allied frnth, in 1nagniftecnt condc .. con ion, au<l stood Ly tho ucdsidc of her who had loved h er in her infancy' and who had hecn repaid hy such gricYOU.' wrong . ~. 1he seemed ~·nrpri.-;c<..l to find her . o ill, and . coldcd nnclc Phillip for not ··ending for Dr. Flint. She her ·elf ,·cnt for hin1 inHneJiatcly, an(l he clune. ~ cc urc as I was in my reL reat, l should h a.Ye been terrified iJ l h~a known he \\' U.' so 11 car 1110. lie pronouncccl tny pTc.tndnwlhcr in a Ycry cri tical t.:Jtuation, ~tHt f:'aiJ i(' her attending phy::,ician wi :-ihc<t it, he woulcl Yi~it h er. Xobocly wi ·hcd to lla \'O h itn co1uing to tho house n t n 11 hour-', and we wore noL disposocl to gi vo hin1 a chance to nw.ke out a long LJill. .As ~frs . Flint went out, Sally tol<.l her tho reason Denny wa ·lan1c was, that a dog lw.<l Litt n hin1. "l'tn glad of it.,'' n'plied ~he. ''I \Vi ~-h he h;Hl ki1ll'd hin1. 1L would Lu goud uew0 tv send tv his 111utiwr. lfcr duy will cu1uc. |