"Then, will you please tell me how far it is to Canada?"

"You go to Adrian, about a mile ahead, and take the cars, and they'll
take you to Canada in two hours; or, if you haven't money to go that
way, you can go up that road till you come to the Quaker meeting-
house, and go direct east two miles to the Widow Haviland's school,
and she will tell you how to go to Canada, and it won't cost you any
thing.' She is a great friend to your people."

He soon found me. I got my supper out of the way, and my men folks out
again at their work. I then inquired who directed him to me, and he
told me "two men six miles from this school said you was a frien' to
my people; an' I thought if folks knew you six miles off I would be
safe to come to you, 'case I wants to go to Canada right soon. I
started once before, and traveled three nights by the North star; and
as Indiana was a free State I thought I would stop and buy me some
broad, an' the people was mighty kind, and said I could rest a week,
and they would pay me for the work I did, to help me on to Canada. But
firs' I knew my master come for me, an' I seed him pay them money--
s'pose 't was reward."

This time he was so cautious that he would make a friend of no one
until he reached Michigan. They had always heard people were friends
to colored people in this State. He was six weeks from Kentucky, and
had not dared to make his condition known to any one, white or black,
until he saw a colored man in the yard at Dr Bailey's, of whom he
inquired for my house. I told him that his coat and pants were too
ragged, and that I must repair them. As he had not a second shirt, I
took one of my son's, and gave him a couple of towels, soap, and a
pail of warm water, and told him to take off his coat for me to mend,