The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-08

You saw me i'm the spectators train,
and you saw me sold from the block
THE eacher placed his hand on the
Son of Ben Ais shoulder and REPLIED
Il came from far away, and there the
people are thinking about you and
praying for you. Bear that in mind
linking about you and praying for
you, and praying for you every day
and every night. Hundreds, thousands,
tens Of thousands all thinking about
You and praying for you
"Gooft-gooft! This Teacher talked
as the man talks in the little house on
the creek road, where the people go
when the bell rings the little house
with the high wooden chimney, where
the bell is.
at is a church" said Buster John.
"Humph. 1T may be a church for all
know. / have stood in the woods and
heard the man talk to the people, and
the Teacher talked just like him.
don't know what else the Teacher said
to the Son of Ben ALL nor what the
Son Of Ben Ali said to him, but that
night after the Son of Ben Ali had seen
the Little Master, and when we We're
on our way back to the woods, we met
the Teacher again. He had been to
another plantation, and told the ne
groes there how the people in his coun-
try were thinking about them and
praying for them.
"'You 90 too far from home said
the Son Of Ben Ali. Many a negro
where you've been tonight win tell
what you have said, in hopes of getting
an extra rasher of meat
'Ooft-gooft' grunted the White
Pig; and hog-meat at that But the
Teacher said he would trust them"
The best goodnight / can give you,
said the Son Of Ben Ali, is not to trust
them too much or too far
"0oft-oof! Now you might wonder
how / could remerber such little things.
But little things have away of growing,
and this was one Of the little things
that grew. Humph! it grew like a
pumpkin vine. One thing followed
another like sheep jumping over a rail
on the ground. The last sheep to 90
over jumps higher than a mans head.
So with these things | ann telling you
of. They grew, and they jumped.
when we met the teacher the grass
was green, but it was not long before
the winds began to blow keen and cold,
and then the grass shriveled and the
leaves on the trees began to fall As
for me, / could lie in the sedge and
keep warm, or / could make me bed
of leaves ON the windward side of the
fence and never know that the weather
was cold With the son of Ben Ali it
was different. Not having been born
free to the woods, and the weather-tO
the four winds and the four seasons
humph-he must have a fire. He must
have fire that could be felt and not
seen. So he dug him a hole in the
ground, a trench, he called it, and in
this he made his fire, and he seemd to
be very fond of it when the weather
was very damp and cold.
Zone night when | was returning
from the yam patch to the top of the
hill, / heard horses going along the
road / knew the horses had riders, for
/ could hear no wheels. The fog was
heavy and thick, and so / went close to
the road to see and hear what / could.
/ slipped through the wet grass and lis
tened Suddenly one of the riders pull
ed up his horse and cried out:
Look Look on the hill yonder!"
Il turned to see what it was; it was
terrible enough to scare anybody. On
int N1OuAiS dtONt GIiC lAlll W dS lllC Sl1CiNl-
ow of a man as big as a fodder stack
and as high as the tallest pine. Even
horses saw it and snorted with fear.
The shadow raised its arms above its
head and then let them drop quickly.
/ knew at once that it was the shadow
of the Son of Ben Ali, but even / had
a auaking fear. Suddenly | heard an
other voice call out:
Whoever you are, come and help
man in trouble
''The Son of Ben Ali heard it, too,
for the cry Of the man for help had
hardly died away before the shadow
on the clouds disappeared as if it had
been wiped out. | knew that the voice
that had called to the shadow was the
voice of the Teacher, the man who had
told the Son of Ben Ali that thousands
and tens of thousands were praying
for him. And / wondered whether the
thousands and tens of thousands were
praying for the Teacher, now that he
seemed to be in trouble.
''The teacher called again, and then
] heard the voice of Old Grizzly's son
George tell the man to hush or he
would blow his brains out.
But / have done nothing to you,
gentlemen said the Teacher. / have
not harmed you in the least What
have you seized me for, and where are
you taking me-?
HUSH you snivelling wretch said
Old Grizzly's son George. You've been
colloguing with the niggers, and tell
ing them about freedom. You want to
raise an insurrection, and you'll have
to pay for it'll
''After that the Teacher said no
more, and the patrol rode on. | could
see, dark as it was, that they had the
Teacher riding behind Old Grizzly's son
George. The Teacher was tied with a
rope, and the rope was fastened to
Old Grizzly's son. All this | saw, and
/ saw -Gooft!-the things that
burn and sting you from afar. 1t was
well that my eyes were fitted for the
dark, otherwise the Son of Ben Ali
would have been riddled. But | ran
and met him and fold him Of the guns