At his request, I found means to get him a Bible and a hymn-book from the overseer's room; and the old man ever afterwards kept them concealed in the hen-house.
The weeding season of 1836, was marked by repeated acts of cruelty on the part of Huckstep.

One of the hands, Priscilla, was, owing to her delicate situation, unable to perform her daily task.

He ordered her to be tied up against a tree, in the same manner that I had been.

In this situation she was whipped until _she was delivered of a dead infant, at the foot of the tree_! Our men took her upon a sheet, and carried her to the house, where she lay sick for several months, but finally recovered.
I have heard him repeatedly laugh at the circumstance.
Not long after this, we were surprised, one morning about ten o'clock, by hearing the horn blown at the house.

Presently Aunt Polly came screaming into the field.