remember it as well as if it were but yesterday-poor old man!!! He
thought God had done it all-and my heart bled within me at the sight of
his misery. He begged me to get permission to come and see him
sometimes, which I readily and heartily promised him.' But when all
had left him, the Ardinburghs, having some feeling left for their
faithful and favorite slave, 'took turns about' in keeping him-
permitting him to stay a few weeks at one house, and then a while at
another, and so around. If, when he made a removal, the place where he
was going was not too far off, he took up his line of march, staff in
hand, and asked for no assistance. If it was twelve or twenty miles,
they gave him a ride. While he was living in this way, Isabella was
twice permitted to visit him. Another time she walked twelve miles,
and carried her infant in her arms to see him, but when she reached
the place where she hoped to find him, he had just left for a place
some twenty miles distant, and she never saw him more. The last time
she did see him, she found him seated on a rock, by the road side,
alone, and far from any house. He was then migrating from the house of
one Ardinburgh to that of another, several miles distant. His hair was
white like wool-he was almost blind-and his gait was more a creep than
a walk-but the weather was warm and pleasant, and he did not dislike
the journey. When Isabella addressed him, he recognized her voice, and
was exceeding glad to see her. He was assisted to mount the wagon, was
carried back to the famous cellar of which we have spoken, and there
they held their last earthly conversation. He again, as usual,
bewailed his loneliness,-spoke in tones of anguish of his many
children, saying, "They are all taken away from me! I have now not
one to give me a cup of cold water-why should I live and not die?"
Isabella, whose heart yearned over her father, and who would have made
any sacrifice to have been able to be with, and take care of him, tried
to comfort, by telling him that 'she had heard the white folks say,