A negro has a soul? an’ please your honour, said the corporal
(doubtingly).
I am not much versed, corporal, quoth my uncle _Toby_, in things of
that kind; but I suppose, God would not leave him without one, any more
than thee or me——
——It would be putting one sadly over the head of another, quoth the
corporal.
It would so; said my uncle _Toby._ Why then, an’ please your honour, is
a black wench to be used worse than a white one?