CHAPTER VIII.
HORSE-RACING AND GENERAL TRAINING.
After the return of the wedding party, Mr.Fitzhugh purchased a tract of land near that of Capt.

Helm, on which the newly-married couple commenced keeping house.

They, however, became dissatisfied with their location, and soon after sold their possessions and returned to the South.
Capt.

Helm still continued to take the oversight of his slaves, and was out every day, superintending his business, just as his overseer used to do.
About this time a man named Henry Tower came to Bath to hire "slave boys," as we were called.

The Captain hired to him Simon and myself, and a Mr.
Baker also hired to him one slave named Vol.McKenzie.We three started for Dresden, Ontario County, where we arrived in due time.
Mr.Tower had just bought a tract of land, three miles this side of the village of Lyons, on the Canandaigua outlet.