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questions again, and I gave him the same answer, for which I was again whipped.— All because I said I would not stay with him. He kept on whipping me commencing immediately after breakfast — which was a little after sunrise.  And kept me tied until 12 o'clock. The blood was cut out of my back. I did not go immediately to work, the whipping was such that I could not do hard work. He whipped me again a short time before Christmas, because I asked him to let me go home. I also, asked him for some money: he wanted to know what I wanted with it; I said to go home where I live, in Martain County; he said I had better wait until Mr. Bagley came there, then I could go back with him. Says I to Mr. Richardson, it won't cost any more now to go, than to wait until he comes; he then said, "all I have got to say, wait until Mr. Bagley comes out, and you come to me, as a boy ought, and I will give you money". He then made me shut up, and said he was not going to do any better for me, I told that was not at all satisfactory. When I said that, he says, "I will tell you what I will do". He got a paper and read it to me, which was — "when an apprentice boy was bound to a man, he must do as he says'.  Says I, I am not an apprentice boy — He says,