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After
a
long
sleep
,
sometime
in
the
afternoon
I
awoke
,
refreshed
,
but
very
sore
and
stiff
.
Sally
came
in
and
talked
with
me
,
while
John
cooked
me
some
dinner
.
Sally
was
in
great
trouble
,
as
well
as
myself
,
one
of
her
children
being
ill
,
and
she
feared
it
could
not
survive
.
Dinner
over
,
after
walking
about
the
quarters
for
a
while
,
visiting
Sally
's
cabin
and
looking
at
the
sick
child
,
I
strolled
into
the
madam
's
garden
.
Though
it
was
a
season
of
the
year
when
the
voices
of
the
birds
are
silent
,
and
the
trees
are
stripped
of
their
summer
glories
in
more
frigid
climes
,
yet
the
whole
variety
of
roses
were
then
blooming
there
,
and
the
long
,
luxuriant
vines
creeping
over
the
frames
.
The
crimson
and
golden
fruit
hung
half
hidden
amidst
the
younger
and
older
blossoms
of
the
peach
,
the
orange
,
the
plum
,
and
the
pomegranate
;
for
,
in
that
region
of
almost
perpetual
warmth
,
the
leaves
are
falling
and
the
buds
bursting
into
bloom
the
whole
year
long
.
I
indulged
the
most
grateful
feelings
towards
Master
and
Mistress
Ford
,
and
wishing
in
some
manner
to
repay
their
kindness
,
commenced
trimming
the
vines
,
and
afterwards
weeding
out
the
grass
from
among
the
orange
and
pomegranate
trees
.
The
latter
grows
eight
or
ten
feet
high
,
and
its
fruit
,
though
larger
,
is
similar
in
appearance
to
the
jelly-flower
.
It
has
the
luscious
flavor
of
the
strawberry
.
Oranges
,
peaches
,
plums
,
and
most
other
fruits
are
indigenous
to
the
rich
,
warm
soil
of
Avoyelles
;
but
the
apple
,
the
most
common
of
them
all
in
colder
latitudes
,
is
rarely
to
be
seen
.
Mistress
Ford
came
out
presently
,
saying
it
was
praise-worthy
in
me
,
but
I
was
not
in
a
condition
to
labor
,
and
might
rest
myself
at
the
quarters
until
master
should
go
down
to
Bayou
Bœuf
,
which
would
not
be
that
day
,
and
it
might
not
be
the
next
.
I
said
to
her
--
to
be
sure
,
I
felt
bad
,
and
was
stiff
,
and
that
my
foot
pained
me
,
the
stubs
and
thorns
having
so
torn
it
,
but
thought
such
exercise
would
not
hurt
me
,
and
that
it
was
a
great
pleasure
to
work
for
so
good
a
mistress
.
Thereupon
she
returned
to
the
great
house
,
and
for
three
days
I
was
diligent
in
the
garden
,
cleaning
the
walks
,
weeding
the
flower
beds
,
and
pulling
up
the
rank
grass
beneath
the
jessamine
vines
,
which
the
gentle
and
generous
hand
of
my
protectress
had
taught
to
clamber
along
the
walls
.
The
fourth
morning
,
having
become
recruited
and
refreshed
,
Master
Ford
ordered
me
to
make
ready
to
accompany
him
to
the
bayou
.
There
was
but
one
saddle
horse
at
the
opening
,
all
the
others
with
the
mules
having
been
sent
down
to
the
plantation
.
I
said
I
could
walk
,
and
bidding
Sally
and
John
goodbye
,
left
the
opening
,
trotting
along
by
the
horse
's
side
.
That
little
paradise
in
the
Great
Pine
Woods
was
the
oasis
in
the
desert
,
towards
which
my
heart
turned
lovingly
,
during
many
years
of
bondage
.
I
went
forth
from
it
now
with
regret
and
sorrow
,
not
so
overwhelming
,
however
,
as
if
it
had
then
been
given
me
to
know
that
I
should
never
return
to
it
again
.
Master
Ford
urged
me
to
take
his
place
occasionally
on
the
horse
,
to
rest
me
;
but
I
said
no
,
I
was
not
tired
,
and
it
was
better
for
me
to
walk
than
him
.
He
said
many
kind
and
cheering
things
to
me
on
the
way
,
riding
slowly
,
in
order
that
I
might
keep
pace
with
him
.
The
goodness
of
God
was
manifest
,
he
declared
,
in
my
miraculous
escape
from
the
swamp
.
As
Daniel
came
forth
unharmed
from
the
den
of
lions
,
and
as
Jonah
had
been
preserved
in
the
whale
's
belly
,
even
so
had
I
been
delivered
from
evil
by
the
Almighty
.
He
interrogated
me
in
regard
to
the
various
fears
and
emotions
I
had
experienced
during
the
day
and
night
,
and
if
I
had
felt
,
at
any
time
,
a
desire
to
pray
.
I
felt
forsaken
of
the
whole
world
,
I
answered
him
,
and
was
praying
mentally
all
the
while
.
At
such
times
,
said
he
,
the
heart
of
man
turns
instinctively
towards
his
Maker
.
In
prosperity
,
and
when
there
is
nothing
to
injure
or
make
him
afraid
,
he
remembers
Him
not
,
and
is
ready
to
defy
Him
;
but
place
him
in
the
midst
of
dangers
,
cut
him
off
from
human
aid
,
let
the
grave
open
before
him
--
then
it
is
,
in
the
time
of
his
tribulation
,
that
the
scoffer
and
unbelieving
man
turns
to
God
for
help
,
feeling
there
is
no
other
hope
,
or
refuge
,
or
safety
,
save
in
his
protecting
arm
.
So
did
that
benignant
man
speak
to
me
of
this
life
and
of
the
life
hereafter
;
of
the
goodness
and
power
of
God
,
and
of
the
vanity
of
earthly
things
,
as
we
journeyed
along
the
solitary
road
towards
Bayou
Bœuf
.
When
within
some
five
miles
of
the
plantation
,
we
discovered
a
horseman
at
a
distance
,
galloping
towards
us
.
As
he
came
near
I
saw
that
it
was
Tibeats
!
He
looked
at
me
a
moment
,
but
did
not
address
me
,
and
turning
about
,
rode
along
side
by
side
with
Ford
.
I
trotted
silently
at
their
horses
'
heels
,
listening
to
their
conversation
.
Ford
informed
him
of
my
arrival
in
the
Pine
Woods
three
days
before
,
of
the
sad
plight
I
was
in
,
and
of
the
difficulties
and
dangers
I
had
encountered
.
