"To-morrow afternoon, sir, if you please."
"He shall come to you about four o'clock, and you shall see what you can make of him."
With this promise he took his leave. I felt glad to see him the next day, and asked:
"Where were you born?"
"In Africa. I was very little boy when I was made slave by the white men."
"How was that?"
"I left father and mother one day at home to go to get shells by the sea-shore; and, as I was stooping down to gather them up, some white sailors came out of a boat and took me away. I never see father nor mother again."
"And what became of you then?"
"I was put into ship and brought to Jamaica, and sold to a massa, who keep me in his house to serve him some years; when about three years ago, Captain W——, my massa that spoke to you, bought me to be his servant on board his ship. And he be good massa; and I live with him ever since."