AFTER he had been some time in service, his master said to him—
“Now you are of age, you may go where you please, and serve any master you think proper. I did not buy you to keep you as a slave, but that you might enjoy the sweets of liberty. You can leave my house tomorrow if you like.” The poor slave was melted by the power of kindness, and with the deepest emotion he exclaimed, “Me leave you, my dear massa? Oh! no, not for all de world. Me want no wages to serve you, if massa turn me out at one door, me will come in at the other.”
ML 01/24/1904