You have enjoined silence on me with respect to their connection with the negro race, but I do not think we can conceal it from them very long.

It will not be long before Iola will notice the offishness of girls of her own age, and the scornful glances which, even now, I think, are leveled at her.

Yesterday Harry came crying to me, and told me that one of the neighbor's boys had called him 'nigger.'" A shadow flitted over Leroy's face, as he answered, somewhat soberly, "Oh, Marie, do not meet trouble half way.

I have manumitted you, and the children will follow your condition.

I have made you all legatees of my will.