In the autumn of the same year I saw a drove of upwards of a hundred, between 40 and 50 of them were fastened to one chain, the links being made of iron rods, as thick in diameter as a man's little finger.

I met a drove of negroes, 30 or 40 in number, remarkably ragged and destitute of clothing.

Woods and Collins, a couple of "nigger traders," were collecting a "drove" of slaves for Memphis, about this time, and, when they were ready to start, all the family were sent off with the gang; and, when they arrived in Memphis, they were put in the traders' yard of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

A mile beyond, back of a great cloud of dust, He found a drove of cattle, and back of these, hot and voiceful, came the good Bishop Wright.

It is the opinion of gentlemen here, that not far from five hundred thousand dollars are yearly paid in this place for negroes; and at this moment, I can look from the window of my room and count six droves of from twenty to forty each, sitting in the market place for sale.

The next morning they put those slaves in the road and drove them down to Wittsbarg the same as you would drive a drove of cattle, Wittsburg was where they caught the boat to go down to Louisiana.

"There were three drivers, one of whom staid in the room to watch the drove, and the other two slept in an adjoining room.

So far as my knowledge extends, 'droves,' on their way to the south, eat but twice a day, early in the morning and at night.

They'd bring in three or four droves of horses and mules, care fer 'em, take 'em out sell 'em.

Master Hicks kept a drove of pea-fowls.

I was then selling a drove of slaves, which I had brought by water from Baltimore, my conscience not allowing me to drive, as was generally the case uniting the slaves by collars and chains, and thus driving them under the whip.

Ingrid knows how baby Tim must have labored to sew that red circle, how John Jacob toiled over that weaving-mat, and Elsa carefully folded the drove of little pigs.

Just before he got there a drove of heath fowl started up from a narrow strip of borderland, flapping their wings and screaming loudly.

So far as I was concerned it might just as well have been the functionary who herds small droves of visitors in Westminster Abbey.

As he got near to the place, and passed along the dikes, and looked to the right and left down the droves, and trotted at last over the Folking bridge across the Middle Wash, the country did not seem to him to be so unattractive as of yore; and when he recognised the faces of the neighbours, when one of the tenants spoke to him kindly, and the girls dropped a curtsey as he passed, certain soft regrets began to crop up in his mind.

THE INTERVIEW A Song Darkness clos'd around, loud the tempest drove, When thro' yonder glen

From Santa Fé Pike was sent home by a roundabout route through Chihuahua, and through Texas, where he noted the vast droves of wild horses, and the herds of peccaries.

"I passed another drove," said the squire, with one of your countrymen behind them, they were something less beasts than your drovedoddies most of them; a big man was with themnone of your kilts though, but a decent pair of breeches;d'ye know who he may be?" "Hout aythat might, could, and would pe Hughie MorrisonI didna think he could hae peen sae weel up.

Then would he honorably neglect rabbits and all fur, cease pointing droves of pigs, and quit the silly chase of robins.

Those who had leisure to go up to the bluffs often reported large droves in sight.

Well, such a one was once written, I have forgotten by whom, but assuredly the heroine of it ought to have been the Altamaha shada delicate creature, so superior to the animal you northerners devour with greedy thankfulness when the spring sends back their finny drove to your colder waters, that one would not suppose these were of the same family, instead of being, as they really are, precisely the same fish.

The shot, whether or no it had struck one of their number, had, in an instant, stirred the drove in panic.

Did these people ever think,as they watched the sombre, stubborn Gaucho sweating over a tapia, subjecting a drove of peons to his authority, or, stretched upon a hide, growing ferocious as the luck went against him at cards,that here was one of those forces which mould or overturn the world?

So mama took a drove of us and went to work for some more white folks.

He had an army of two thousand gunmen, besides pack-horsemen and men to tend the drove of bullocks, together with a few Catawba Indians,a total of twenty-four hundred.