Most evidently, he was a wretched man, at war with his own soul, and with all the world around him.

To be overheard by the children, disturbed him very little.

He made no more of our presence, than of that of the ducks and geese which he met on the green.

He little thought that the little black urchins around him, could see, through those vocal crevices, the very secrets of his heart.

Slaveholders ever underrate the intelligence with which{63 SUPPOSED OBTUSENESS OF SLAVE-CHILDREN} they have to grapple.