Moses and His Master. Mr. B was a merchant in Bal- timore, and aid a very heavy husiness especially in grain. Oue moining as he was passing over the vessels that lay at the wharf with their various commodities for sale, he stepped upon the dock of one, at the stern of which he saw & negro man sitting, whose de: jected coutenance gave indication of distress: and he accosted him with: “Hey! my man, what is the matter with you ?” Tha negro man lifted his eyes and replied : “Ah, Massa, I'se “What about?” “Kase I'se fotchod up here to be sold.” “What for? Have Or did you run away? in great trouble.” What have been you heen doing ? you stealing ! Or what “Well massa stranger, I tell Massa Willum werry strict man, and you. werry nice man too, and everybody on the place got to mine him; and I break de doe : [ an I got too high’, “It is for getting drunk, it?” “O no, sah, not dat, nother.” the rule forgot mesef, then, 18 “You are strangest negro I have seen for a week. 1 can get no satisfaction form you. If you would not like to be pitched had better tell me what you did.” overboard, you “Pleas massa, don’t frow de flicted nigga in de wala, “Then tell me what sold for.” “For praying, sah.” I A g “For tale, permit “i prayiog LLUAL A Si Will pray 7" yes, he but I hollars too loud.” uh indeed your masts you 1 san, “And why do y« prayer [” “Kase the I git "oe happy for 1 kuow Can ntrol mesef if old Satan bhissef ¢ “And do you sup at? will really sell you for t J ves: no help for me now : al men in orld couldn't he “Moses, “What Massa name Col. “Where ‘Down on de sab. master's name ?” Will live?” is your um ( —— does he Easern Shoah.” od 2 DD mastel 1 up and | And Moses st robust frame, and ‘Stan od as Mr , his arm ped up his sleeve dence « muscu.al i unusual nase wharf.” As Mr. heard Moses give by ’ at all pleased with the | He was strongly followed a deep was not resent phase of allairs, pre assed with the was a trader and intended to 1 and it was this ths nde | mwilling to « Bee Be $5 mmunicate to lesired information. d the He wharf Just introduced and said “] understand y ne nder gro man schooner.’ Col. replied th “Whas do you ¢ a | { X pes i at he d seven hund iar’ “How old is he “About thirty “Is he healthy " ) Cf “Yery, had one ol he never AY in Lis lite, tw the “Is he hearty 7” except ague.’ he will eat as much and it will “Yes sir, as any do him as much man ought good.” “la he n ge od hand?” | “Yes sir, he is the best hand on m vy tricus. that he might be available at any moment I might want him, I built | | recognized him as Col, © his quarter within a hundred yards of my own house, and I have never rung the bell day or night that his horn did not answer in five minutes after. But two years ago he got religion, and | | | | | me | Suppose | children.” we need Lhe wish to, Soon Mr, B-— "3 attention was ar. rested by a very confused noise above. commenced what he terms family | prayer—that is, prayer in his quarter | every night and mornivg, and when Hé listened, and heard an unusual he began his prayer it was impossible | | sh uffling of feet, and so.ne one sob, to tell when he would stop, especially | bing violently, and some one talking if, as he termed it, he got happy. | Very hurriedly; and when he reflected Then he would sing and pray and | | upon Col. C ; ther, 80 | land the peculiar expression of his "8 singular movements halloo for an hour or two loge l sounte mdnce, he beca ne alarmed, and loud that you might hear him a mile off. And he would pray for me and determined to go up and see what was my wife and children, and all my | transpiriog. brothers and sisters and their children | When he reached the head of the and our whole family connection (0 stairs, he was startled to see Moses in the third generation; snd sometimes 'the widdle of the floor, down upon his when we would have visitors, Moses’ | knees with his urms around the Col’ waist, and talking most rapidly, while the Col. prayer would interrupt sation and destroy the enjoyment of | | the conver | stood weeplog audibly, Col. feelings, whole company ; and even after I had could sum he told for | B——that he had never been able hear | free himself from Moses prayers, and Moses pray for three hours after be | had finished, could, As soon as the retired, it would sometimes be pearly Mr. Lo ly control his daylight before I could go asleep ; that I it seemed to me could and his had that during the past year hie [ bore it as long as I | wife and all his children been and then forbade his praying | sonverted. Moses promised $0 loud any more. {and {lor Moses responded : “Bress God,” transgressed, Massa OC - but obedience, but he soon doe I way up my rule is never to whip, uebber forgit you in my | when a negro proves incorri gible | llers put the o | massa side the sell him. This keeps them in better | ne, subjection, and is less trouble than bout Joseph in de Egypt agin.” The —~that his hen stated to ohiect whipping. I pardoned Moses twice Colouel t loud, I knew I must sell him, ul i be lors . reel | orders, ssured i but the third B Baltimore, praying or every was to buy M» But | AFR * pin that that was Moses’ quarts he question, for he } } rom Lhat De negro on the farm w lv Fregar periect family back agaiv. . : dless of my has s him, and “les has a8 woman mit Moses and his wif his children at thirty-five years “What wll v Year led on and the and the chil " Hy {ren ”’ ¢ master ou want then “Is you m MIASSA “No, merchant YOu ir prayers will hn ve ry I t YOU MAY ne of B days M=-Knil lew vears ago our fam yes danced in their sockets, meu was und des full heart lat ness, lis hearts response was, * | Di to Moses his wife and children | was one day standing at his store door place. He is steady, honest and indus. | he saw a man leap upon the wharf He hasbeen my foreman, and | s dee | from the b | stances which gave | eX DO Xj| ! | * cide Une of his a jusintanc es ries a Afri an can boas | remarked, “He was certainly crazy, | him and a letter | he Ve Press 4) One evening 1 ealled ug the tim Ses Never ress (God all M found him trying to write inks bout al de { could hardly see my mmodations : wom, He mplain | that his way CTORs failing, as it was hard the | the h How upon Moses ha | 0 And essing on ( alter paper. In surprise [ turned His un lonel : , bidding ' YOK Of astonishment, 1m adieu, and requesting at the again, LOIng | uj sible describe AS Crazy new his been he would have tarped up the reach take [sage gas himself.” So easily do we The return of the schooner brought ly do we Yet Newton was never SU PPOs d to be of sus ped ted of our conciusions; 80 OAS { things for granted, Sir Early the next spring, as Mr, B ‘out ig mind,’ sherds & neve his mind,’ and eridan was never | TL more | being a lunatic, 1 gas jet sim iy walk He soon ~, They exchanged salutations, and to the Cols: inquiry after Moses, Mr. B ~replied that he was upstairs measuring grain k of a vessel and served to throw hurriedly toward the store, light on the stupidity of a sensible | feeble | glimmer the corresponding feebleness | of his intellect. Nothing stantly and completely man, instead of proving by its Is more cone surprising i than these apparent lapses of intelli- gence in prescas whose intellect is ace and invited him to walk up and see him, vent - | pared with the knowledged to be the superior th" foul foolishness, and seldom have we to average. From a we son to complain of disappointment. From the we expect though we sometimes fail to find It is said that it is only the fool wige it. the foolishness of sensible pe ples 18 generally of a kind which experience can in no way modify. It Is occasion, quality, admits no argumést from tion. Probably by contrast and in- congruity its effect is heightened it seems more seusible than dullness, because it is inevitably com usual me cy. We learn from the “Letters of Gustave Flaubert” of and the ntal brillian that he had prepared a dictionary the stupid sayings of great men,” volume is a unique and amusing one, he a, I | prayers; i | : new | general LAR Bress God dis makes Moses tink | | ment, | passes the frontier | lores who It was the illustrious Napoeon ITT who made the profound observation, “the wealth of a country depends upon Its The fam Ing utterance Lo prosperity us Havin wrote, as if giv a most valuable philosophical state “As soon as a Freochwman nods himsel! “Men he gn soil.’ Fmersoa says, have commanded great armies and taken great cities, who have made yr an empire, or' proclaimed the found, 3 low [aesday a we Mrs, Ar: DOVE passing th ranch on body of Strong in a wile, Calm y little game on stay CAre Lo take Ave Par [| | by I will go go and . ’ Pasteur, and to the time of goi has developed no signs of hydr pho bia, but to say that he is mad exageration whatever, - Dy used Momus Have Eleetrio il for eroup and colds, and declare it A pos tive cure,’ Ply Contributed by Wm. 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