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Show 200 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. applications to bring wanntb and feeling iu to 1ny limbs, but without avail. They were so nu1nb and stiff that it was a painful effort to 1nove; and had my enetnies come upon me during the first n1orni11gs I tried to exerci~o thcn1 a little ju the s1nall unoccupied space of tho storcroo1n, it \Vould have been nnpossiblc for me to have escaped. Important Era in my Brother's Life. 201 XXVI. L\IPORTA.NT ERA IN ~1Y BRO'rliER'S LIFE. I l\IISSBD the con1pany and kind attentions of 1ny brother \Villian1, ·who had gone to \Va:hington with his 1na -ter, ~ir. Sands. \V e rocciYeu .·eycral letter · fro1n hin1, written without any allusion to Inc, but expre.-~c<l in such a 1nanncr that I knc\v he diu not forget 1no. I disgui.-ecl n1y hancl, and wrote to hi1n in tho .·mne manner. It ·was a long session; and ·whon jt clo:ed, \Villia1n ·wrote to infonn us that 1lr. Saud · \\rtv going to tho north, to be gone so Inc ti rne, ancl tlw.t he was to acco1npany him. l knew that his nut~ ter ha<l pronliscd to giYe hi1n l1is frcedo1n, but no t in1o had l)ccn spccif10<l. '\Voulcl \Villiatn tru ·t to a slave's chances? I rcn1cn1ber e<l how \ve u ·eel to talk too·ethcr, in our young days, about obtaining our froo<lOin, au<l I thought it very doubtful ·whether Ito would con1o back to u . Gran<ln1other received a letter fron1 ~Ir. Sand ·~ saying that Willia1u had proYcd a n1ost faithful , erYant, and he ·would al. ·o say a valucu friend; that no n1other had ever trained a Letter boy. lie tiaill he had traxollcd through the N orthcrn States an<l Canada; and though the abolitioni -ts had tried to decoy hitn a way, they had never snccccdod. Ilc cndccl by :ayiug they t-lhonhl Lo at hon1o shortly. W c c.xpoctecl letters frorn \Villiarn, dc:cribing tho novelties of his journey, bnt none carne. In tin1e, it was reported that l\Ir. Sands ·woulcl return late in the |