I need not tell any one who is acquainted with either the strength of the disposition of an untamed ox, that this order was about as unreasonable as a command to shoulder a mad bull!
From his autobiography, Douglass describes the impossible task given to him by his enslaver, Mr. Covey, to control untamed oxen.
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