He could tell me pretty nigh where he was; he said he was a fine healthy boy, twenty-one, a first-rate blacksmith; he would not have taken a thousand dollars for him." BROTHER-IN-LAW.--"I know not where the boy is, but I have no doubt he is worth more to himself than he ever was to his master, high as he fixes the price on him; and I have no doubt thee will do better to pursue thy peddling honestly, than to neglect it for the sake of serving negro-hunters at a venture." All this happened within a month or two after I left my friend.

One fact which makes this part of the story deeply interesting to my own mind, is, that some years elapsed before it came to my knowledge..