If not, as you tell me dat when he slabe before he run away, it jus' possible he do de same again.' "'Don't you tink, missy,' de wife said, 'dat de young massa gib freedom to Sam too.

Sam wait on him a great many years, sabe him life when he tumbled into water.' "'I bery much afraid,' missy said, shaking her head, 'dat my broder not able to do so if he wish.

He borrow money on de plantation and de slabes, and dat prevent him from making any ob dem free.

De sale soon come now.

You go tell Sam; tell him not to say word to nobody.