145] slave’s friend. 5 of Abyssinia, he met a girl going to market with a basket of eggs. The moment she saw him, she screamed, “ How ugly! How ugly1?” In her terror, she dropped the basket, broke her eggs, and then ran away. The girl had never before seen a white man, and his countenance ap. peared frightful to her. Perhaps some will consider this a strange and silly prejudice; but it is no more strange and silly, than our own prejudice against a brown face, or a black one, merely because it is unlike our own. JOHN WOOLMAN. John Wool man, a good man, who lived in old times, and was a strong abolitionist, tells the following story of himself: “ A thing remarkable in my childhood was, that once, going to a neighbor’s house, I saw on the way, a robin sitting on her nest, and as I came near, she went off; but, having young
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