How are the children ?" "Fat an' happy an' well dressed.

Mrs.Peasley has been a mother to 'em an' her sister is goin' to be a wife to me." He came close to Samson and added in a confidential tone: "Say, if I was any happier I'd be scairt.
I'm like I was when I got over the toothache--so scairt for fear it would come back I was kind o' miserable." Mr.Peasley came out of the door.

He was a big, full bearded, jovial man.
"I've got a small load o' hay for you," said Samson.
"I was expecting it, though I supposed 'twould be walkin'-- in the dark o' the night," Peasley answered.

"Drive in on the barn floor." When Samson had driven into the barn its doors were closed and the negroes were called from their place of hiding.

Samson writes: * * * * * "I never realized what a blessing it is to be free until I saw that scared man and woman crawling out from under the dusty hay and shaking themselves like a pair of dogs.