I don't know noffin'." "Why couldn't you learn as well as Pomp ?" "Dat ar boy's a gen'us, missus.

His fader was a mighty smart nigger, and Pomp's took arter him." Chloe's conviction of her own inferiority and Pomp's superior ability seemed so rooted that Mrs.Frost finally gave up her persuasions.
Meanwhile, as Chloe is in good health and has abundance of work, she has no difficulty in earning a comfortable subsistence for herself and Pomp.
As soon as Pomp is old enough, Frank will employ him upon the farm.
While I am writing these lines intelligence has just been received from Frank's substitute at the seat of war.

He has just been promoted to a captaincy.

In communicating this he adds: "You may tell Frank that I am now his equal in rank, though his commission bears an earlier date.

I suppose, therefore, I must content myself with being Captain Frost, Jr.
I shall be very glad when the necessities of the country will permit me to lay aside the insignia of rank and, returning to Rossville, subside into plain Henry Frost again.