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_Apprenticeship Life_.
NOTHING LOST BY THE ATTEMPT TO RUN AWAY--COMRADES IN THEIR OLD HOMES--REASONS FOR SENDING ME AWAY--RETURN TO BALTIMORE--CONTRAST BETWEEN TOMMY AND THAT OF HIS COLORED COMPANION--TRIALS IN GARDINER'S SHIP YARD--DESPERATE FIGHT--ITS CAUSES--CONFLICT BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK LABOR--DESCRIPTION OF THE OUTRAGE--COLORED TESTIMONY NOTHING--CONDUCT OF MASTER HUGH--SPIRIT OF SLAVERY IN BALTIMORE--MY CONDITION IMPROVES--NEW ASSOCIATIONS--SLAVEHOLDER'S RIGHT TO TAKE HIS WAGES--HOW TO MAKE A CONTENTED SLAVE.
Well! dear reader, I am not, as you may have already inferred, a loser by the general upstir, described in the foregoing chapter.

The little domestic revolution, notwithstanding the sudden snub it got by the treachery of somebody--I dare not say or think who--did not, after all, end so disastrously, as when in the iron cage at Easton, I conceived it would.

The prospect, from that point, did look about as dark as any that ever cast its gloom over the vision of the anxious, out-looking, human spirit.

"All is well that ends well." My affectionate comrades, Henry and John Harris, are still with Mr.William Freeland.