My master sent me, with my mistress to the country, where her father lived, (for she was sickly, and he said it would do her good,) and when we came back there was no child to meet me.

I have cried, ma'am, enough for Miss Ellen, but I never shed a tear for my own.' "'But what induced him, Lucy, to do such a wicked thing ?' "'Money, ma'am, and drinking, and the devil.

He did not leave me one.

My five boys, and my two girls, all went at once.

My oldest daughter, ma'am, I was proud of her, for she was a handsome girl, and light-colored too--she went, and the little one, ma'am.