something or other, which showed he warn't in his
right mind; then she flung up her hands, and says:

"He's alive, thank God! And that's enough!"
and she snatched a kiss of him, and flew for the
house to get the bed ready, and scattering orders
right and left at the niggers and everybody else, as
fast as her tongue could go, every jump of the way.

I followed the men to see what they was going
to do with Jim; and the old doctor and Uncle Silas
followed after Tom into the house. The men was
very huffy, and some of them wanted to hang Jim
for an example to all the other niggers around there,
so they wouldn't be trying to run away like Jim done,
and making such a raft of trouble, and keeping a
whole family scared most to death for days and
nights. But the others said, don't do it, it wouldn't
answer at all; he ain't our nigger, and his owner
would turn up and make us pay for him, sure. So
that cooled them down a little, because the people
that's always the most anxious for to hang a nigger
that hain't done just right is always the very ones
that ain't the most anxious to pay for him when
they've got their satisfaction out of him.

They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him
a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim
never said nothing, and he never let on to know me,
and they took him to the same cabin, and put his
own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not
to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into
the bottom log, and chained his hands, too, and
both legs, and said he warn't to have nothing but
bread and water to eat after this till his owner come,

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