One third of this was deducted as an allowance for the probabilities of death, and sickness, leaving one hundred and four dollars as the price of his redemption.

The old man objected strongly and earnestly to the price; he said, it was too much; he had not money enough to pay it; and begged them, with tears in his eyes, not to make him pay so much "for his old bones;" but they would not remit a cent.

They could not.

They were the stern ministers of the British emancipation law, the praises of which have been shouted through the earth! Of the three overseers who were present, not one could be called a respectable man.

Their countenances were the mirrors of all lustful and desperate passions.