If so, it matters little what cause he assigned for the improvement.

Wisdom is justified of all her children; and, I doubt not, of old black Isaac among the rest.
In 1864 he had a great sorrow.

Old Mary, trying to smoke the mosquitoes out of her house with a charcoal-pan, set fire, in her shortsightedness, to the place; and everything was burned--the savings of years, the precious Bible among the rest.

The Squire took her down to his house, and nursed her: but she died in two days of cold and fright; and Isaac had to begin life again alone.

Kind folks built up his ajoupa, and started him afresh; and, to their astonishment, Isaac grew young again, and set to work for himself.