In this respect, he was inconveniently rich.

It is reported of him, that, while riding along the road one day, he met a colored man, and addressed him in the usual way of speaking to colored people on the public highways of the south: "Well, boy, who do you belong to ?" "To Col.

Lloyd," replied the slave.

"Well, does the colonel treat you well ?" "No, sir," was the ready reply.

"What?
does he work you too hard ?" "Yes, sir." "Well, don't he give enough to eat ?" "Yes, sir, he gives me enough, such as it is." The colonel, after ascertaining where the slave belonged, rode on; the slave also went on about his business, not dreaming that he had been conversing with his master.