s that come under your notice. Indeed, so desirous are
they to cultivate your intellectual nature, that they seek to stimulate
your appetite for knowledge, by drawing your attention to many things
which otherwise you would overlook. At the same time, they point you to
the great and all-wise Creator, that you may admire and love him who has
made every thing for our highest happiness and good.

But slavery depends for its existence and growth upon the ignorance of
its miserable victims. If Tidy's questions had been answered, and her
curiosity satisfied, she would have gone on in her investigations; and
from studying objects in nature, she would have come to study books, and
perhaps would have read the Bible, and thus found out a great deal which
it is not considered proper for a slave to know.

"We couldn't keep our servants, if we were to instruct them," says
the slaveholder; and therefore he makes the law which constitutes it a
criminal offense to teach a slave to read.

But Tidy was taught to WORK. That is just what slaves are made for,--to
work, and so save their owners the trouble of working themselves.
Slaveholders do not recognize the fact that God designed us all to work,
and has so arranged matters, that true comfort and happiness can only be
reached through the gateway of labor. It is no blessing to be idle, and
let others wait upon us; and in this respect the slaves certainly have
the advantage of their masters.

Tidy was an apt learner, and at eight years of age she could do up Miss
Matilda's ruffles, clean the great brass andirons and fender in the
sitting-room, and set a room to rights as neatly as any person in the
house.

CHAPTER IV. SEVERAL EVENTS.

SHALL I pause here in my narrative to tell you what became of Annie
and some of the other persons who have been mentioned in the preceding
chapters?

Tidy often saw her mother. Miss Lee used to visit Mr. Carroll's family,
and never went without taking Tidy, that the child and her mother might
have a good time together. And good times indeed they were.

When Annie learned that her baby had been taken to Rosevale, that she
was so well cared for, and that they would be able sometimes to see one
another, her grief was very much abated, and she began to think in what
new ways she could show her love for her little one. She saved all the
money she could get; and, as she had opportunity, she would buy a bit
of gay calico, to make the child a frock or an ap