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& upon enquiry learned that his master had beaten him very severely with a Boats rib because he had laughed at the apparent disappointments of a man who spilled some wine & when he asked for a glass the [indecipherable] was told to drink what he had spilled. He had no intention whatever of offending his master & it is a lamentable trait in a man character when he allows the injuries supposed or real of others to cause him to vent his anger upon unoffending servants. This I have too frequently observed with deep regret - but to proceed the little fellow told me that he thought nobody in the [indecipherable] had ever suffered so much & so unjustly - how his mistress heard what he had to say he thought she would never have turned him out of doors & how his master but have known how he strove to do what was right he never would have beaten him so soundly. To comfort him I related how much more Joseph had