Don't you go near dat plantation, or sure enuff trouble come." "I will look out, Dan.

There is one thing, I always ride fast; and it wants a very good shot to hit one at a gallop.

I don't think they will try that; for if he missed, as he would be almost sure to do, it would be a good deal worse for him than this affair would have been had he brought it into court.

You keep your ears open, Dan, and find out how they are thinking of punishing that poor follow for my interference on his behalf." After breakfast a negro arrived with a note for Mrs.Wingfield from Mr.
Jackson, complaining of the unwarrantable and illegal interference by her son on behalf of a slave who was being very properly punished for gross misconduct; and of the personal assault upon his son.

The writer said that he was most reluctant to take legal proceedings against a member of so highly respected a family, but that it was impossible that he could submit to such an outrage as this.
Although Mrs.Wingfield had expressed her disapproval of Vincent's conduct on the evening before, there was no trace of that feeling in her reply to this letter.