'What have you been doing, my boys,' said our coachman in passing, 'to entitle you to these ruffles ?' 'Oh, sir,' cried one of them quite gaily, 'they are the best things in the world to travel with.' The other man said nothing.

I stopped the carriage and asked one of the slave drivers why these men were chained, and how they came to take the matter so differently.

The answer explained the mystery.

One of them, it appeared, was married, but his wife belonged to a neighboring planter, not to his master.

When the general move was made the proprieter of the female not choosing to part with her, she was necessarily left behind.