ve released
himself. The black fellow saw Joseph coming, and made signs to show his
gratitude, uttering a few words of broken English. When, however,
Joseph came to look at the tree, he found that it would be no easy
matter to get the poor black from under it. He had an axe in his belt,
and with it he cut down a young sapling for a handspike, but when he
tried it he found that he could not lift the heavy trunk. Then he set
to work to dig under the foot, but the ground was as hard as a rock.

The black then made signs that he might drive something under it, and so
lift the tree.

"He means wedges," thought Joseph, and at once lopping off a thick
branch, shaped out several; the black, in spite of the pain he was
suffering, watching him with evident satisfaction. With a thick club,
which served as a hammer, Joseph drove in the wedges, and in time got
the tree lifted enough to draw out the black's leg. He then carried the
poor fellow to a bank and examined his foot. It had been caught in a
slight hollow, and was not as much hurt as might have been expected. As
well as he could with the handkerchief off his neck, he bound up the
injured limb, and then placed him on his horse.

"I shall be late at home, but I cannot let this poor black lie out here
in the woods by himself," he thought; "it is my duty to take him to my
hut and tend him till he is well. The black must have been suffering a
great deal of pain, but he bore it bravely."

"What is your name?" he asked, as he walked by his side.

"Troloo, good white man," answered the black, "Troloo lub white man."

It was pleasant to Joseph to think that the young black was grateful.
For some time the storm continued, but Joseph with his injured
companion, pushed on through it. On his way out he had crossed a small
creek with the water not much above his horse's fetlocks. As he drew
near the spot he saw that instead of the quiet blue pool, where there
had been no current, there was now a foaming and roaring torrent, its
muddy waters carrying down numerous roots and branches of trees. Still
he thought that there could be no difficulty in crossing at that spot,
and was leading the horse in, when Troloo made signs that there was much
danger in so doing, and pointed higher up the creek, trying to show that
they might there cross with greater safety. Joseph, like a wise man,
therefore turned back. On calculating the depth of the water by the
height of the bank, he ju