It's bein' a free man! That's what I'm joyin' for.' 'Why, Tom, don't you think that you are really better off as you are ?' 'No, indeed, Mas'r St.Clare,' said Tom, very decidedly; 'no, indeed.' 'But, Tom, you couldn't possibly have earned by your work such clothes and such nice, comfortable rooms and good food as I have given you.' 'I knows all that, Mas'r St.Clare.

Mas'r has been too good.

But, mas'r, I'd rather have poor clothes, poor house, poor everything, and have 'em mine than have the best, and have 'em any man's else.

I had so, mas'r.

I thinks it's nature, mas'r.' 'I suppose so, Tom.