Thomas and Rowena, I found to be a well-matched pair.

_He_ was stingy, and _she_ was cruel; and--what was quite natural in such cases--she possessed the ability to make him as cruel as herself, while she could easily descend to the level of his meanness.
In the house of Master Thomas, I was made--for the first time in seven years to feel the pinchings of hunger, and this was not very easy to bear.
For, in all the changes of Master Hugh's family, there was no change in the bountifulness with which they supplied me with food.

Not to give a slave enough to eat, is meanness intensified, and it is so recognized among slaveholders generally, in Maryland.

The rule is, no matter how coarse the food, only let there be enough of it.

This is the theory, and--in the part of Maryland I came from--the general practice accords with this theory.