THE REWARD OF MERIT.
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The late Rev. G. Teage was born slave
in Goochland county, Va. He was remark
able from his earliest youth for shrewdness


and forecast: so much SO that the epithet
"Fox" was applied TO him as expressive Of
his constitutional caution and wariness. AT
the death ofhis owner, Nicholson, he was ac-
cording to the custom of that land Of boas-
ted equality and republcanism transferred
to other hands. AT the age of t~enty-one
years he found himself the property Of Bell
and Shepard of Richmond Virginia and an
expert workman in a saddlery. Bell was a
scotchman-and possessed more OF the milk
.of human kindness than is usually found to