![]() ![]() ![]() I had never driven oxen before, and of course I was very awkward. He then tied the end of a large rope around the horns of the in-hand ox, and gave me the other end of it, and told me, if the oxen started to run, that I must hold on upon the rope. He told me which was the in-hand ox, and which the off-hand one. Covey sent me, very early in the morning of one of our coldest days in the month of January, to the woods, to get a load of wood. The details of this affair are as follows: Mr. Covey gave me a very severe whipping, cutting my back, causing the blood to run, and raising ridges on my flesh as large as my little finger. I had been at my new home but one week before Mr. In my new employment, I found myself even more awkward than a country boy appeared to be in a large city. I was now, for the first time in my life, a field hand. I had left Master Thomas’s house, and went to live with Mr. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave ![]()
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