egging him to
take their free papers back again, and not to send them away.

'We don't want to be any freer than we are,' they said. 'We have always
had all we wanted.'

'We don't want to leave the old place, and young mas'r and Missis, and
the rest.'

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'My good friends,' said George, when he could get silence, 'there will
be no need for you to leave me. We want quite as many servants as we did
before. But now you are free men and free women. I shall pay you wages
for your work, and if I die, or get into debt, you can't be taken away
to be sold. That is all the difference. I want you all to stay with me,
for I want to teach you how to live as free men and women ought.'

'One thing more,' added George, when the cheering and rejoicing had
died away a little. 'You all remember our good old Uncle Tom. You have
heard how he died, and how he sent his love to you all. It was on his
grave, my friends, that I made up my mind, with God's help, never to own
another slave, if it were possible to free him. I resolved that nobody,
through my fault, should ever run the risk of being parted from his dear
ones, and of dying far from them, as he died.

'So, when you rejoice in your freedom, remember that you owe it to dear
old Uncle Tom, and pay it back in kindness to his wife and children.
Think of your freedom every time you see Uncle Tom's Cabin; and let it
help you to try to live as he did, and be as honest and faithful and
Christian as he was.'

THE END.

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