on
being that as he walked "wid buckra" she must be respectful, and then
remembering that she must not say "Maussa" to a black man. He is black
as Robert, but with Saxon features. Speaking of Henry, he asked, "Is
he short and stout and about my complexion?" Henry is almost white!

_Oct. 22._ Limus is full of amazement at the men of the
Fifty-Fifth[147] and could not express his surprise at their walking
up to their post-office kept by a black man, and opening their letters
to read "just like white men!" They don't know what to make of
educated blacks,--it upsets all their ideas on the relative position
of the two races! I expected some remarks from Rose about our sable
guest--she was not here, but the next day she began: "That stranger
man eat up here? Which side him eat?" In the dining-room with us. "Him
free man?" Yes, he was born in Boston. "Him read and write?" Yes, as
well as I can. This made her open her eyes, and when I told her that
in Boston there were schools for the black children to go to just like
those for the white children, where they could learn the same things,
she departed with a very quiet, "Yes, Ma'am."

FROM C. P. W.

_Oct. 24._ Nothing happens here now, so that even this delightful
country, with its charming variety of scenery and its delicious
climate, its bracing air, its sparkling streams, its richness of
autumnal tints, the ever-varying play of light and shade upon the
steep hillsides and through the green valleys often cease to charm.
For myself, I may say that even the continual excitement incident to
the task of weighing cotton, selling sugar, or counting rails, not to
mention the no less important duty of seeing that my hat is not stolen
from my head, or the shingles off my roof,--even these interesting and
exciting occupations sometimes grow wearisome, and fail to afford that
continued gratification and satisfaction to enjoy which is the object
of a life in this Department. Although the statement seems absurd, I
must nevertheless affirm, that it is more bother to take care of a
plantation of one hundred and twenty working hands than it is to
exercise that number in the "School of the Company;" and that the
satisfaction derived from the faithfulness and honesty of perhaps
thirty is hardly sufficient to atone for the anxiety and distrust with
which one regards the remaining ninety, who lie by habit and steal on
the least provocation, who take infinite pains to be lazy and shirk,
who t