Ebery few months me go back to Philadelphia and search dere again.
"One day a woman, dressed bery plain, came up to me and said, 'I hab been tole by my nurse dat you have been asking her if she had seen your wife.' I s'pose I looked hopeful like for she said at once, 'Me know nothing ob her, but I was interested about you.

You are an escaped slabe, are you not ?' "'Yes, ma'am,' me said.

'Dere is no law against me here.' "'None at all,' she said.

'But I thought that you might, like me, be interested in freeing slabes.' "'Dat I am,' I said, 'dough I had neber thought much about it.' "'You hab heard, p'raps,' she said, 'ob de underground railway.' "'Yes, ma'am,' said I.'Dat is de blessed 'stitution which smuggles slaves across the frontier.' "'Dat is it,' she said, 'and I belongs to it.' "'Does you, missy ?' me says.

'De Lord bless you.' "'Now,' she said, 'we want two or three more earnest men, men not afraid to risk deir libes, or what is worse deir freedom, to help deir follow creatures.