Shet your mouf dis minit: ef you don't I'll sell you; 'fore God I will.

Shet up, I say, or I'll sell you." This had the desired effect, and settled Dinah for the day.
After a week spent in this place of concealment, Jim conveyed Clotelle to Leaksville, Mississippi, through the Federal lines, and from thence she proceeded to New Orleans.
The Rebellion was now drawing to a close.

The valley of the Mississippi was in full possession of the Federal government.

Sherman was on his raid, and Grant was hemming in Lee.

Everywhere the condition of the freedmen attracted the attention of the friends of humanity, and no one felt more keenly their wants than Clotelle; and to their education and welfare she resolved to devote the remainder of her life, and for this purpose went to the State of Mississippi, and opened a school for the freedmen; hired teachers, paying them out of her own purse.