3XJ LIFE OX THE MISSISSIPPI.

* I won't even stay on the same boat with him. One of us has got
to go ashore.'

* Very well,' said the captain, * let it be yourself;' and resumed
his talk with the passengers.

During the brief remainder of the trip, I knew how an emanei-

EMANCIPATED SLAVE.'

slave feels ; for I was an emancipated slave myself. While we
lay at landings, I listened to George Ealer's flute ; or to his readings
from Ms two bibles, that is to say, Goldsmith and Shakspeare; or I
played ehees with him — and would have beaten him sometimes, only
be always took back his last move and ran the game out differently*