However, I paid the fee of twenty-five cents, and he commenced by looking into a gourd, filled with water.

Whether the old man was a prophet, or the son of a prophet, I cannot say; but there is one thing certain, many of his predictions were verified.
I am no believer in soothsaying; yet I am sometimes at a loss to know how Uncle Frank could tell so accurately what would occur in the future.
Among the many things he told was one which was enough to pay me for all the trouble of hunting him up.

It was that I should be free! He further said, that in trying to get my liberty, I would meet with many severe trials.

I thought to myself, any fool could tell me that! The first place in which we landed in a free State was Cairo, a small village at the mouth of the Ohio river.

We remained here but a few hours, when we proceeded to Louisville.