and it had the desired effect.  She came fondling towards me, accompanied by another called Jovial.  I pulled out my knife and cut the throat of Fly, upon which Jovial made an attempt to lay hold of me and I caught him by the throat, which caused me to lose my knife, but I held him fast by the windpipe, forcing my thumbs with as much force as possible, and anxiously wishing for my knife to be in hands.  I made a powerful effort to fling him as far away as possible, and regained my knife; but when I had thrown him there he lay, throttled to death.  Not so, Fly, who weltered in blood, and rolled about howling terribly, but not killed.  The other two hounds caught Geordie, and killed him.  After this terrible escape I went to a barn, and was looking through a hole and saw two men come to where Geordie’s body lay, when a knot of people gathered round, and about ten or eleven o’clock he was buried.  I shortly went to sleep among the hay, and slept so soundly that it was the morning after before I was awoke by a boy coming to get hay for the horses, and the prong of the fork caught me by the thigh, which caused me to jump up and stare at the boy, and he at me, when he dropped the fork and ran away.  As soon as I recovered, I slipped down the hay-rack, and met six men and the boy, who demanded who I was and what I was doing there.  Not knowing what to say, I stood speechless for a long time, and thought my hopes of freedom were now at an end.  They again repeated their question, but I made no reply.  I was then taken before a magistrate, when I was accused of being in the barn for some unlawful purpose; and as I made no answer to any questions put to me, they concluded I was dumb.  When I remembered I had not given evidence of speech, I determined to act as if I was dumb; and when the magistrate called to me, I also thought deafness was often united with dumbness, and I made my mind up to act both deaf and dumb, and when he called “Boy, come here,” I took no notice, and did not appear to hear, until one of the officers led me from the box nearer to the magistrate, who demanded my name, where from, and to whom I belonged, and what I was doing in the barn, which I still appeared not to hear, and merely looked at him, and at last acted as if I was deaf and dumb, and so effectually that he discharged me, convinced I was a valueless deaf and dumb nigger; and when told by the officer to go, I dared not move for fear of being found out in my acting, and would not move until I was forced out of the door, and for some time (for fear of detection) I acted deaf and dumb in the streets, to the fear of women and children, until it was dark, when I made for the woods, where I remained until eleven o’clock at night, when I again resumed my journey to Chester (Pennsylvania), which I had been told was only twenty-six miles.  Shortly after resuming my journey, I saw four horses in the field, and I determined, if possible to possess one of them, and I chased them two hours,