Have you no children, Lucy ?' "'God only knows, ma'am.' "'What do you mean ?' I said.

'Are they all dead ?' "'They are gone, ma'am--all sold.

I ain't seen one of them for twenty years.

Days have come and gone, and nights have come and gone, but day and night is all the same to me.

You did not hear, may be, for grand folks don't often hear of the troubles of the poor slave--that one day I had seven children with me, and the next they were all sold; taken off, and I did not even see them, to bid them good-by.