1 I then proceeded on my way home.
2 The way he used to stand it, was this.
3 She gropes her way, in the darkness of age, for a drink of water.
4 I immediately started for home; and upon entering the yard gate, out came Mr. Covey on his way to meeting.
5 I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.
6 Sandy had a free wife who lived about four miles from Mr. Covey's; and it being Saturday, he was on his way to see her.
7 In this way I got a good many lessons in writing, which it is quite possible I should never have gotten in any other way.
8 Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.
9 The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek.
10 I now proceeded with my team to the place where I had, the day before, been chopping wood, and loaded my cart pretty heavily, thinking in this way to tame my oxen.
11 At times, he spoke to his slaves with the firmness of Napoleon and the fury of a demon; at other times, he might well be mistaken for an inquirer who had lost his way.
12 While on their way, they would make the dense old woods, for miles around, reverberate with their wild songs, revealing at once the highest joy and the deepest sadness.
13 Colonel Lloyd's slaves were in the habit of spending a part of their nights and Sundays in fishing for oysters, and in this way made up the deficiency of their scanty allowance.
14 I succeeded in getting a considerable distance on my way to the woods, when Covey discovered me, and called after me to come back, threatening what he would do if I did not come.
15 I told him, to let me get a new home; that as sure as I lived with Mr. Covey again, I should live with but to die with him; that Covey would surely kill me; he was in a fair way for it.
16 I disregarded both his calls and his threats, and made my way to the woods as fast as my feeble state would allow; and thinking I might be overhauled by him if I kept the road, I walked through the woods, keeping far enough from the road to avoid detection, and near enough to prevent losing my way.
17 After lying there about three quarters of an hour, I nerved myself up again, and started on my way, through bogs and briers, barefooted and bareheaded, tearing my feet sometimes at nearly every step; and after a journey of about seven miles, occupying some five hours to perform it, I arrived at master's store.
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