. History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; including many thrilling encounters between those aiding the slaves to escape and those trying to recapture them . m to the floor. Notsatisfied with this he got up and went after themagain w^hen one of the negroes knocked him downand the three dragged him to the cellar door andput him out. During this scuffle he was pretty-badly hurt. He Hmped up to the house and calledmy father and told him that there were thieves inthe barn cellar and they had used him got a light and found that the man hadbe
. History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; including many thrilling encounters between those aiding the slaves to escape and those trying to recapture them . m to the floor. Notsatisfied with this he got up and went after themagain w^hen one of the negroes knocked him downand the three dragged him to the cellar door andput him out. During this scuffle he was pretty-badly hurt. He Hmped up to the house and calledmy father and told him that there were thieves inthe barn cellar and they had used him got a light and found that the man hadbeen roughly used and was skinned up pretty bad-ly about his face. Father had him wash himselfand put turpentine on the bruises and had himgo to bed. We were a little nonplussed to knowhow we could keep this fellow from seeing the ne-groes the next morning. We had a strong porkhouse standing in our yard. Father went withme and a trusted hand and had the negroes gowith us to the pork house, where he locked themin. At that time we had a butting sheep thathad been a terror to everybody on the farm. Hehad become so bad that we had him in a close pennear the big barn. We decided to put that sheep 192. GEORGE W. HILL. A Member of the Executive Committee of the Anti-SlaveryLeague. THOMAS JEFFERYS FREES NEGROES into the cellar and when the wounded fellow gotup the next morning have him go to the cellarand see if he could find anything of the robbersthat gave him such a thumping. We had a timeputting that savage sheep in the cellar, but finally-got him in and shut the door on him. Early thenext morning the injured man was up and lookedlike he had been in a battle royal. He told fatherthat he was going to the cellar and see if he couldfind his hat, which he lost the night before. Thetwo young men working for us and I went withhim, opened the cellar door and he went in. Assoon as he was in the cellar we heard him yell tolet him out, the sheep had butted him down. Assoon as we opened the doo
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