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Aunt Phillis’s Cabin

CHAPTER XXIII
12/37

Now, if you can get any of your Abolition friends to buy you, and take you North, and make a gentleman of you, I'll sell you to them; but they wouldn't give a fip to keep you from starving.

I am sorry its so, but I can't take you back.' He said these very words, sir.

He felt mighty bad, sir; he talked husky, but he went out.
Simon called after him, but he didn't even look back; so I know Simon's goin for true." "I am really sorry for the servants, Bacchus," said Mr.Weston, "but they won't take warning.

I'm told that since Abolitionists have come to live in Washington, and have been going among the colored people, that it is almost impossible to employ an honest servant; it is on this account that the Irish are so much employed.

Some years ago the families had no trouble with their domestics, but Abolition has ruined them.


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