passengers near, one of whom laughed out. This,
I suppose, annoyed the old gentleman; so he said,
"I will make him hear;" and in a loud tone of
voice repeated, "It is a very fine morning, sir."

My master turned his head, and with a polite
bow said, "Yes," and commenced looking out of
the window again.

One of the gentlemen remarked that it was a
very great deprivation to be deaf. "Yes," replied
Mr. Cray, "and I shall not trouble that fellow any
more." This enabled my master to breathe a little
easier, and to feel that Mr. Cray was not his pur-
suer after all.

The gentlemen then turned the conversation
upon the three great topics of discussion in first-
class circles in Georgia, namely, Niggers, Cotton,
and the Abolitionists.

My master had often heard of abolitionists, but
in such a connection as to cause him to think that
they were a fearful kind of wild animal. But he
was highly delighted to learn, from the gentle-
men's conversation, that the abolitionists were
persons who were opposed to oppression; and
therefore, in his opinion, not the lowest, but the
very highest, of God's creatures.