 that his master was very glad to get the price he had given for him. When he was acquainted with his being again become Mr. Ellison's property, his joy was near proving fatal, having entirely overpowered his spirits. A holy-day was given to all the slaves to welcome his return, and never was the restoration of a Monarch celebrated with so much heart-felt, disinterested joy.
But, although the gratitude and assiduity of this poor fellow's future behaviour greatly rewarded his master, yet it produced a disagreeable event; another slave was encouraged by it to flatter himself that Mr. Ellison would never again exercise the same severity, since it had proved so painful to him; but above all, not on one, who was particularly intelligent and useful, as this slave knew himself to be. On this supposition, he extended his offence to a third time, but was dreadfully surprised to find himself, notwithstanding his most earnest intreaties, doomed to be sold. Before the day appointed for the sale

of the offender arrived, he was seized with a violent fever, and his malady so increased as to render his recovery doubtful, and he was desirous not to recover. Preferring death to slavery under another master, he refused to take the remedies prescribed, and earnestly begged he might be suffered to die. Mr. Ellison thought his condition would sufficiently excuse the reversing of his sentence; so that the poor man now became as anxious to preserve, as he had been before desirous of losing his life; and, his mind being at ease, he recovered from his fever and his perverseness together.
Mrs. Ellison, before the expiration of the first year of their marriage, brought him a very fine boy. Her fortune enabled him to extend his trade; and his success therein always answered his wishes. But he was not free from vexations; Mrs. Ellison, though a good sort of a woman, was one of those who make bad companions in intimate society. She was so very fond of her husband, that she was miserable if he was out of her sight. If, when

abroad on business, he did not return just at the hour she expected, he found her in agonies, lest some misfortune had befallen him; and, with floods of tears, she reproached him with insensibility of the pain she suffered, from his want of punctuality. If he expressed an inclination to spend an evening with a friend, she was inconsolable, and lamented his indifference If he paid the common attentions which politeness required for any other woman, she was fired with
