Well, sar, you could have knocked me down when I find a great bill in de window, saying dat de house were to let.
Sam almost go out ob his mind.

He ask a great many people, de servants at de doors, and de people in de shops and at last find dat de family am gone to trabel in Europe, and dat dey might be away for years.
"For two months Sam searched about Philadelphia, and looked at ebery black woman he saw in de streets.

He could see no signs whatsomeber ob Sally.

Den he took a place as waiter at an hotel, and he wrote to missy at Richmond, to ask if she know Sally's address, but he neber got no answer to dat letter, and s'posed that missy was either dead or gone away.

After he work dere for some months de idea came to Sam dat first class hotel wasn't de best place in de world to look for black woman.
Den Sam went to warehouse and bought a lot of books and started to peddle them trough de country.