He gave food, in abundance, and that, too, of an excellent quality.

In Mr.Hamilton's cook--Aunt Mary--I found a most generous and considerate friend.

She never allowed me to go there without giving me bread enough{158} to make good the deficiencies of a day or two.

Master Thomas at last resolved to endure my behavior no longer; he could neither keep me, nor his horse, we liked so well to be at his father-in-law's farm.

I had now lived with him nearly nine months, and he had given me a number of severe whippings, without any visible improvement in my character, or my conduct; and now he was resolved to put me out--as he said--"_to be broken._" There was, in the Bay Side, very near the camp ground, where my master got his religious impressions, a man named Edward Covey, who enjoyed the execrated reputation, of being a first rate hand at breaking young Negroes.