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I
felt
sorry
to
see
them
sitting
on
the
hot
ground
,
and
remembered
my
own
sufferings
in
the
sun
.
Upon
their
promise
to
return
to
the
stocks
at
any
moment
they
were
required
to
do
so
,
I
consented
to
release
them
.
Grateful
for
the
lenity
shown
them
,
and
in
order
in
some
measure
to
repay
it
,
they
could
do
no
less
,
of
course
,
than
pilot
me
to
the
melon-patch
.
Shortly
before
Tanner
's
return
,
they
were
in
the
stocks
again
.
Finally
he
drove
up
,
and
looking
at
the
boys
,
said
,
with
a
chuckle
,
--
"
Aha
!
ye
hav
n't
been
strolling
about
much
to-day
,
any
way
.
I
'll
teach
you
what
's
what
.
I
'll
tire
ye
of
eating
water-melons
on
the
Lord
's
day
,
ye
Sabbath-breaking
niggers
.
"
Peter
Tanner
prided
himself
upon
his
strict
religious
observances
:
he
was
a
deacon
in
the
church
.
But
I
have
now
reached
a
point
in
the
progress
of
my
narrative
,
when
it
becomes
necessary
to
turn
away
from
these
light
descriptions
,
to
the
more
grave
and
weighty
matter
of
the
second
battle
with
Master
Tibeats
,
and
the
flight
through
the
great
Pacoudrie
Swamp
.
At
the
end
of
a
month
,
my
services
being
no
longer
required
at
Tanner
's
I
was
sent
over
the
bayou
again
to
my
master
,
whom
I
found
engaged
in
building
the
cotton
press
.
This
was
situated
at
some
distance
from
the
great
house
,
in
a
rather
retired
place
.
I
commenced
working
once
more
in
company
with
Tibeats
,
being
entirely
alone
with
him
most
part
of
the
time
.
I
remembered
the
words
of
Chapin
,
his
precautions
,
his
advice
to
beware
,
lest
in
some
unsuspecting
moment
he
might
injure
me
.
They
were
always
in
my
mind
,
so
that
I
lived
in
a
most
uneasy
state
of
apprehension
and
fear
.
One
eye
was
on
my
work
,
the
other
on
my
master
.
I
determined
to
give
him
no
cause
of
offence
,
to
work
still
more
diligently
,
if
possible
,
than
I
had
done
,
to
bear
whatever
abuse
he
might
heap
upon
me
,
save
bodily
injury
,
humbly
and
patiently
,
hoping
thereby
to
soften
in
some
degree
his
manner
towards
me
,
until
the
blessed
time
might
come
when
I
should
be
delivered
from
his
clutches
.
The
third
morning
after
my
return
,
Chapin
left
the
plantation
for
Cheneyville
,
to
be
absent
until
night
.
Tibeats
,
on
that
morning
,
was
attacked
with
one
of
those
periodical
fits
of
spleen
and
ill-humor
to
which
he
was
frequently
subject
,
rendering
him
still
more
disagreeable
and
venomous
than
usual
.
It
was
about
nine
o'clock
in
the
forenoon
,
when
I
was
busily
employed
with
the
jack-plane
on
one
of
the
sweeps
.
Tibeats
was
standing
by
the
work-bench
,
fitting
a
handle
into
the
chisel
,
with
which
he
had
been
engaged
previously
in
cutting
the
thread
of
the
screw
.
"
You
are
not
planing
that
down
enough
,
"
said
he
.
"
It
is
just
even
with
the
line
,
"
I
replied
.
"
You
're
a
d
--
d
liar
,
"
he
exclaimed
passionately
.
