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Show ) Incidents in the J..jfe of a Slave Girl. filthy box, behind \vltitc people, at the south, but there they \VCrc not rCt}ll ired. to pay for the privilege. It 111aclc 1nc ·ad to find how the north aped the custmns of ~lnsery. \V e \vcrc towed away in a large, rough car, with windows on each si<lc, too high for us to look out with~ out tanclino· np. It \Va crowd.ccl with people, appar~ cntly of all nations. There \Yore plenty of heels and cradles, containing screan1ing and kicking babies. Every other n1an had a cigar or pipe in hi n1outh, ancl J·ncrs of whi~key \YOre handed round freely. Tho • b fun1es of the \vhi ·key and. the dense tobacco smoke were ickcning to rny senses, and n1y rnind. was equally nauseated by the coarse jokes and ribald songs around me. It was a very disagreeable ride. Since that thno there has been son1e improvc1nent in these matters. f f The Meeting of Mother and Daughter. 249 XXXII. TilE J\IEETlNG OF J\fOTIIER A_ND D.JUGIITER. WnEN \VC arrived in Now York, I was half crazed by the crowd. of coac1uncn calling out, " Carriage, rna'an1 ? " \Y c Laro·ainccl with one to take u · to Sullivan trcct .C r t\vclYc : hilling . A. lnuly Iri .. lunan stopped up and ·aiel, "l'll tak' yc for ax .·hillj11 o· ·• '' The reduction of half the price \\r::v an object to u~, and we askc<l if he coul d. take u right away. " Troth an I will, l a<l ic ·," he r eplied. I noticou that tho badclnon smiled at each other, ancl l inquirou whether bis conveyance was decent. "Y c.·, it' .. dacont it i,, 1nann. DcYil a bit ·would. I be after takiu' ladie .. in a cab that wa not daccnt." \\ e gave hi tn our chocks. lie went for the baggage, and soon reappeared, ·aying, "This way, if you pla e, ladies.'' '\V c followoJ, and found onr trunks on a truck, and. we wore invited. to take our scats on them. \V c told hi1n that was not what we lmrgn.ined for, and he 1111.1. t take the trunks oif. lie swore they should. not Le touched till we lw.d paid hin1 six shillings. In our si tuation it was not prudent to attract attention, and I 1va · al1out to pay hin1 what he required, when a 1nan ncar by shook hi · head for me not to do it. After a great ado we got ri<l of the Irishn1an, and. had our trunk. fa.·tcncd on a hack. W o had been r ccon1 n1C1Hlcd to a boarcling-hon ·o in Sullivan Rtrcct, and thither '\VC drove. There Fanny and I separated. The A.nti-Slavcry Society proviclocl a |