The negotiations for my purchase by Mr. Dans1ey fai1ed, and I was 1eftto my exertions to get to Canada the best way I cou1d. I was secretedduring this time about Dans1ey's farm, and was aroused to a sense of mycondition one day by reading a hand-bi11 which was posted on a tree onthe road c1ose to Mr. Dans1ey's house, of which the fo11owing is a copy: