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Slave Life in Georgia 76 24.03.2006 so as to avoid being seen as much as possible; but, overcome by fatigue, I fell asleep. I was awakened by a voice, crying out-- "Hallo, old fellow! Are you asleep?" I looked up, and remembering the advice I had received from CÆsar, never to look frightened if I should be surprised by any one, I answered, without getting up: Page 146 "No, I'm not asleep! I was asleep till you waked me, though." The party who spoke to me was a common-sized man, who had perched himself up on the top of the fence, which was from seven to eight feet high, and made of split timbers, ten feet and a half long. He held a fowling-piece across his lap, and had I started off, could easily have shot me, for I must have run before him, the fence preventing my getting away in one direction, the water in the other, and the prairie in a third. "Which way are you going?" he asked. "I'm not going anywhere," I replied. "I'm sitting down." Bethinking myself that I ought to show a reason for being asleep so early in the morning, I scrambled up, and pretended to be drunk, staggering, and reeling, and looking foolishly at him. "Hie, old fellow!" he said, then; "you've been drinking, I reckon." "Yes, Sir, been drinking a little," I answered. "Do you live in this part of the country?" he inquired. "Oh no! My home is in Buffalo," I made answer; for CÆsar had told me to say so, if any Page 147 one asked me such a question. "I've been following the water, and I got away round to New Orleans, and from there to St. Louis. Now I'm going on through the country, on by Vandalia, to see my cousin."
Slave Life in Georgia 77 "Well, old fellow," the man said; "you had better hire yourself out to me. Don't you want to cut some cord wood?" "What sort of pay will you give me?" said I. "Half a dollar a-day," he answered. "What will you pay me in?" I asked. "Well, wouldn't you like to have a gun?" "What sort of a gun?" "This one," he said, patting the one he held. "That gun's of no account," I said; and here I staggered again. "It's very good to shoot ducks with," he made answer. "Oh," I said; "the land's so wet that you can't travel by it, let alone going into the water after ducks. But I think I'll take your offer, for the weather is so bad, I don't suppose I shall be able to get along very well." "Well," he answered, "you go up to the house yonder, and I'll go to Vandalia road to get some eggs." Page 148 So saying, he jumped down from the fence and went on. The house was half a mile from this place. I made straight for it, but the mistress of the house, who was in the horse-yard, would not let me in when I knocked at the door. I suppose she was afraid, for I know she saw me as I was going by. I turned from the door, and observing that the men in the field had stopped their horses, and were leaning against the handles of their ploughs, watching me, I thought it best to go up boldly to them, so as to avert suspicion. I pretended to want work, and in answer to their questions, told them I was a carpenter and joiner. They said they did not want any mechanical workman, but that if I went on the Springfield road, down under the Bluff, there was a man there would employ me. As I saw woods in the direction they pointed out, their advice suited me very well; so I went on till I got into the woods on the Springfield road. Here I found a chunk of a blown-down tree. I got behind it, and as it was crooked, I could, by lying down, very conveniently peep out from under the crook. I 24.03.2006
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