him; that you have set your mark on him, and that you
have took your satisfaction. The throb of delight felt
by a 'monokolister' is beyond all conception."

"Oh heavens!" said the traveller, "Oh horror of horrors!
I never heard any thing so dreadful. Your manner of
telling it, too, adds to its terrors. You appear to view
the practice with a proper Christian disgust; and yet
you talk like an amateur. Oh, the thing is sickening."

"It is, indeed," said Mr. Slick, "particularly to him
that loses his peeper. But the dexterity, you know, is
another thing. It is very scientific. He has two niggers,
has Squire Wormwood, who teach the wrastlin' and
gouge-sparrin'; but practisin' for the eye is done for
punishment of runaways. He has plenty of subjects. All
the planters send their fugit_ive_ niggers there to be
practised on for an eye. The scholars ain't allowed to
take more than one eye out of them; if they do, they have
to pay for the nigger; for he is no sort o' good after,
for nothin' but to pick oakum. I could go through the
form, and give you the cries to the life, but I won't;
it is too horrid; it really is too dreadful."

"Oh do, I beg of you," said the traveller.

"I cannot, indeed; it is too shocking. It will disgust
you."

"Oh, not at all," said Turkey, "when I know it is simulated,