The man employed a large number of apprentices, and accomplished the job on three successive Saturdays.

They worked at the rate of nearly one hundred holes per day for each man, whereas the usual day's work is only seventy-five holes.
Mr.W.bore testimony that the great body of the negroes in his district were very peaceable.

There were but a few _incorrigible fellows_, that did all the mischief.

When any disturbance took place on an estate, he could generally tell who the individual offenders were.

He did not think there would be any serious difficulty after 1840.