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Upon the whole, I was by this time so fixed upon my design of going over with him to the continent that I told him we would go and make one as big as that, and he should go home in it. He answered not one word, but looked very grave and sad. I asked him what was the matter with him. He asked me again, "Why you angry mad with Friday? -what me done? " I asked him what he meant. I told him I was not angry with him at all. "No angry! " says he, repeating the words several times; "why send Friday home away to my nation? " "Why," says I, "Friday, did not you say you wished you were there? " "Yes, yes," says he, "wish we both there; no wish Friday there, no master there. " In a word, he would not think of going there without me. "I go there, Friday? " says I; "what shall I do there? " He turned very quick upon me at this. "You do great deal much good," says he; "you teach wild mans be good, sober, tame mans; you tell them know God, pray God, and live new life. " "Alas, Friday!"
says I, "thou knowest not what thou sayest; I am but an ignorant man myself. " "Yes, yes," says he, "you teachee me good, you teachee them good. " "No, no, Friday," says I, "you shall go without me; leave me here to live by myself, as I did before. " He looked confused again at that word; and running to one of the hatchets which he used to wear, he takes it up hastily, and gives it to me. "What must I do with this? " says I to him. "You take kill Friday," says he. "What must kill you for? " said I again. He returns very quick-"What you send Friday away for? Take kill Friday, no send Friday away. " This he spoke so earnestly that I saw tears stand in his eyes. In a word, I so plainly discovered the utmost affection in him to me, and a firm resolution in him, that I told him then and often after, that I would never send him away from me if he was willing to stay with me.