This season, Amelia, for the first time, had a traveling suit complete,
for she was going a journey with her father; and when it was finished,
she was so pleased that she sent for Tidy at once to participate
in her joy, and insisted that she should immediately put it on,
that she might see how it fitted, and if every thing about it
was as it should be. The dress was a dark green merino,
made with a very long pelerine cape, which was the very pink of
the fashion, and was the especial admiration of all the children.
Tidy arrayed herself in these, and, putting the little jaunty cap
of the same color on her head, stood before the glass and surveyed
herself with as perfect satisfaction as the owner of the becoming
costume herself experienced. Indeed she could hardly keep her
eye from telling tales of the joy within, as she inwardly said,
"There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, and may be,
Miss Amelia, I shall go traveling in this before you do."
She felt that nothing could have been provided more suitable
or timely than this charming suit.

Are you shocked, little reader, that Tidy, the good, exemplary,
conscientious Tidy, should have thought of appropriating Amelia's
wardrobe to herself? I must stop a moment here to explain to you
the slaves' code of morals. They are so ignorant that we must
not expect them to have so high or correct a standard of conduct
as we have, or to be able to make such nice distinctions in questions
of right and wrong.

Ever since Mammy Grace had made to her young pupil the first imperfect
revelation of God's character and government, declaring that he would
punish with eternal fire those who should lie, swear, or steal,
the child had held these sins in the greatest abhorrence, and was