Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition. Гарриет Бичер-Стоу

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      It was such a sad story, that the tears came into the eyes of everyone who heard her tell it.

      'Where do you mean to go to, poor woman?' asked the lady.

      'To Canada, if I only knew where that was. Is it very far off, is Canada'? said Eliza, looking up in a simple, trusting way, to the kind lady's face.

      'Poor woman,' said she again.

      'Is it a great way off?' asked Eliza.

      'Yes,' said the lady of the house sadly, 'it is far away. But we will try to help you to get there.' Eliza wanted to go to Canada, because it belonged to the British. They did not allow any one to be made a slave there. George, too, was going to try to reach Canada.

      'Wife,' said the gentleman, when they had gone back again into their own sitting-room, 'we must get that poor woman away to-night. She is not safe here. I know some good people, far in the country, who will take care of her.'

      So this kind gentleman got the carriage ready, and drove Eliza and her boy a long, long way, through the dark night, to a cottage far in the country. There he left her with a good man and his wife, who promised to be kind to her, and help her to go to Canada. He gave some money to the good man too, and told him to use it for Eliza.

      CHAPTER VI

      UNCLE TOM SAYS GOOD-BYE

      The day after the hunt for Eliza was a very sad one in Uncle Tom's cabin. It was the day on which Haley was going to take Uncle Tom away.