1 Master Hugh was very much enraged.
2 I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years.
3 Master Hugh then refused to allow me to hire my time longer.
4 I knew that Master Hugh was in no special need of the money that night.
5 Master Hugh, for once, was compelled to say this state of things was too bad.
6 About two months after this, I applied to Master Hugh for the privilege of hiring my time.
7 Master Hugh, finding he could get no redress, refused to let me go back again to Mr. Gardner.
8 Master Hugh told him it was done in Mr. Gardner's ship-yard at midday, where there were a large company of men at work.
9 It was tenfold harder after living in Master Hugh's family, where I had always had enough to eat, and of that which was good.
10 In a few weeks after I went to Baltimore, Master Hugh hired me to Mr. William Gardner, an extensive ship-builder, on Fell's Point.
11 Thanks to a kind Providence, I fell to the portion of Mrs. Lucretia, and was sent immediately back to Baltimore, to live again in the family of Master Hugh.
12 But, from some cause or other, he did not send me to Alabama, but concluded to send me back to Baltimore, to live again with his brother Hugh, and to learn a trade.
13 I contracted for it; I earned it; it was paid to me; it was rightfully my own; yet, upon each returning Saturday night, I was compelled to deliver every cent of that money to Master Hugh.
14 Not long after his marriage, a misunderstanding took place between himself and Master Hugh; and as a means of punishing his brother, he took me from him to live with himself at St. Michael's.
15 It, however, was not so severe as the one I dreaded at the division of property; for, during this interval, a great change had taken place in Master Hugh and his once kind and affectionate wife.
16 I went directly home, and told the story of my wrongs to Master Hugh; and I am happy to say of him, irreligious as he was, his conduct was heavenly, compared with that of his brother Thomas under similar circumstances.
17 During the week, I had entered into an engagement with a number of young friends to start from Baltimore to the camp ground early Saturday evening; and being detained by my employer, I was unable to get down to Master Hugh's without disappointing the company.
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