The narrative of John Doy, of Lawrence, Kansas ...: Printed for the author.

THE GRASS NOT UP.
planned the escape, and ought to die for it. The others contented themselves with cursing and swearing, and, after impressing on our guard the necessity of renewed vigilance,
went away.
Pinks amused us the rest of the night by giving a funny
account of the whole affair and showing how the boys ran,
saying that they jumped fifteen feet at a leap, and that
if they kept on at the same rate, they must be in Lawrence before that time. For himself, he said that it was
too cold, the grass wasn't up yet, and he didn't like to
leave a good boarding-place without paying his board.
The next day workmen came in and repaired the window
through which the escape had been made.*
* The white boy above mentioned is still living in Kansas, honest and industrious, and
determined to be a worthy citizen. Poor Riley I after working for some time in Lawrence, he started for Nebraska, on his way to the Free States; thence he was again kid,napped, and is now probably under the lash on some cotton plantation.
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