CHAPTER VI.

SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE.

The Second Plan of Escape--Under the Jail--Egress--Among the Guards--In the Swamp--Travelling on the Underground Railroad--The Fare--Green Corn eaten Raw--Blackberries and Stagnant Water--The Bloodhounds--Tantalizing Dreams--The Pickets--The Cows--Become Sick--Fons Beatus--Find Friends-- Union Friend No. Two--The night in the Barn--Death of Newman by Scalding--Union Friend No. Three--Bound for the Union Lines--Rebel Soldiers--Black Ox--Pied Ox--Reach Headquarters in Safety--Emotions on again beholding the Old Flag--Kindness while Sick--Meeting with his Family--Richard Malone again-- The Serenade--Leave Dixie--Northward bound 168--211