A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin / Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work.

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In bulrush and in brake;

Where waving mosses shroud the pine,

And the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine

Is spotted like the snake;

“Where hardly a human foot could pass,

Or a human heart would dare,—

On the quaking turf of the green morass

He crouched in the rank and tangled grass,

Like a wild beast in his lair.

“A poor old slave! infirm and lame,