1 You have a kind master, that won't refuse to sell you.
2 "Now, Jim, walk like old Uncle Cudjoe, when he has the rheumatism," said his master.
3 The child came up, and the master patted the curly head, and chucked him under the chin.
4 Tom rose up meekly, to follow his new master, and raised up his heavy box on his shoulder.
5 The child scampered, with all his little strength, after the prize, while his master laughed.
6 "Your master, I s'pose, don't keep no dogs," said Haley, thoughtfully, as he prepared to mount.
7 While this scene was passing in the cabin of the man, one quite otherwise passed in the halls of the master.
8 The cabin of Uncle Tom was a small log building, close adjoining to "the house," as the negro par excellence designates his master's dwelling.
9 And mind yourself," said the trader, "and don't come it over your master with any o yer nigger tricks; for I'll take every cent out of him, if you an't thar.
10 Now, it had so happened that, in approaching the door, Eliza had caught enough of the conversation to know that a trader was making offers to her master for somebody.
11 This young man had been hired out by his master to work in a bagging factory, where his adroitness and ingenuity caused him to be considered the first hand in the place.
12 The instant Haley touched the saddle, the mettlesome creature bounded from the earth with a sudden spring, that threw his master sprawling, some feet off, on the soft, dry turf.
13 Nevertheless, as this young man was in the eye of the law not a man, but a thing, all these superior qualifications were subject to the control of a vulgar, narrow-minded, tyrannical master.
14 He was waited upon over the factory, shown the machinery by George, who, in high spirits, talked so fluently, held himself so erect, looked so handsome and manly, that his master began to feel an uneasy consciousness of inferiority.
15 Tom," said his master, kindly, "I want you to notice that I give this gentleman bonds to forfeit a thousand dollars if you are not on the spot when he wants you; he's going today to look after his other business, and you can have the day to yourself.
16 A gay robe of scarlet and yellow plaid, carefully made and neatly fitted, set off to advantage the dark and rich style of his beauty; and a certain comic air of assurance, blended with bashfulness, showed that he had been not unused to being petted and noticed by his master.
17 Instantly the flexible limbs of the child assumed the appearance of deformity and distortion, as, with his back humped up, and his master's stick in his hand, he hobbled about the room, his childish face drawn into a doleful pucker, and spitting from right to left, in imitation of an old man.
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