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find every kitchen, dining-room, — in short, every 
place, — -filled with colored servants; but when 
Mr. Flickinger made application for our accom- 
modation, out of four hotels there were none that 
that could keep us. 
We are in a private boarding-house kept by a 
colored man. We like the place, and would 
rather stay here than in a hotel ; but it is a long 
distance from the business part of the city. Mr. 
Flickinger came on Saturday evening to board 
with us, as he preferred to be with us while we 
were in the city. He is still boarding with us. I 
believe he eats as much, walks as fast, does his 
business as well, sleeps as sound, — even though 
he boards in a house owned and kept by a colored 
man, and eats at a table surrounded by colored 
people. 
We finished our work of preparation at 4:00* 
p. M. tO“day, when Mr. Flickinger said, How, I 
can make the 5:30 train and he did. We have 
orders to be aboard at 9:00 a. m. to-morrow, and 
if all goes well we will be out of sight of land 
twenty-four hours hence. Truly, we have much 
to thank the Lord for, as well as the good* people 
of Dayton and elsewhere, and especially I, who- 
have been snatched from the degradation of hea- 
thenism through their kind interposition. 
