Dar's plenty ob susceptible an' well-dressed house-serbants dat a gal ob her looks can git widout takin' up wid dem common darkies." The evening's entertainment concluded by Sam's relating a little of his own experience while with his first master, in old Kentucky.

This master was a doctor, and had a large practice among his neighbors, doctoring both masters and slaves.

When Sam was about fifteen years old, his master set him to grinding up ointment and making pills.

As the young student grew older and became more practised in his profession, his services were of more importance to the doctor.

The physician having a good business, and a large number of his patients being slaves,--the most of whom had to call on the doctor when ill,--he put Sam to bleeding, pulling teeth, and administering medicine to the slaves.