Note 9 — UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.

Here, however, is an exquisite touch. When Eva can no longer walk, Tom carried her; and on one occasion her father seeks to perform that office. “Oh, papa! let Tom take me! Poor fellow, it pleases him; and you know, it’s all he can do, and he wants to do something!”

“So do I, Eva—.”

“Well, papa, you can do everything, and are everything to me. You read to me,—you sit up at nights; but Tom has only this one thing, and his singing!”