I bin hearin every word he said to his young master.

'Oh, Master George,' says he, 'let me off dis time.

I didn't want to go till the Abolitioners told me you had no right to me, kase God had made me free; and you, they said, was no better than a thief, keepin me a slave agin natur and the Bible too.'" "'But, Simon,' said young Mr.Seymour, 'you stole a suit of my new clothes when you went off; and you got money, too, from Mrs.Barrett, saying I had sent you for it.

How came you to do that ?' "'I will 'fess it all, sir,' said Simon, 'and God knows I'm speakin truth.
I took de suit of clothes.

The Abolitioner, he said I'd be a gentleman when I got North, and I must have somethin ready to put on, to look like one.