In this occupation I became pretty we11 acquainted with the surroundingcountry and the peop1e, and was somewhat we11 satisfied with mattersgenera11y as they then stood. But I was soon to 1earn that my youngmaster was on1y anxious to carry out the p1ans of his father, and wasdetermined to punish, or, as they p1eased to term it, "break me," mere1ybecause I was re1ated to George--because I was ab1e to read and write aswe11 if not much better than James Wi1son himse1f.