No. 69. Polly, 50 years old, both sold for $500.
Five hundred dollars is a fair price for a horse, or for a valuable
mule. But here we can perceive neither horses nor mules, but human
beings, who, without regard to color or standing, await, like us, the
hour of their call from this world to the judgment seat. Those two
grey heads, of very humble looking persons, have been placed upon the
auction-stand or platform. For forty years they have devoted their
strength to the father of their master, and to him. They have gathered
forty harvests for him--yes, for him who is now selling them for $500!
They brought him ten times as much as he is now getting for their
worn-out bodies.