Frost, as if to
implore assistance.
"That's Chloe's child," said Mrs. Frost. "Stop the horse, Frank;
I'll get out and see what has happened."
Chloe, as Frank very well knew, was a colored woman, who until a
few months since had been a slave in Virginia. Finally she had
seized a favorable opportunity, and taking the only child which
the cruel slave system had left her, for the rest had been sold
South, succeeded in making her way into Pennsylvania. Chance had
directed her to Rossville, where she had been permitted to
occupy, rent free, an old shanty which for some years previous
had been uninhabited. Here she had supported herself by taking in
washing and ironing. This had been her special work on the
plantation where she had been born and brought up, and she was
therefore quite proficient in it. She found no difficulty in
obtaining work enough to satisfy the moderate wants of herself
and little Pomp.
The latter was a bright little fellow, as black as the ace of
spades, and possessing to the full the mercurial temperament of
the Southern negro.
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