Chapter 5 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

As to my own treatment while I lived on Colonel Lloyd's plantation, it was
very similar to that of the other slave children. I was not old enough to
work in the field, and there being little else than field work to do, I had
a great deal of leisure time. The most I had to do was to drive up the cows
at evening, keep the fowls out of the garden, keep the front yard clean,
and run of errands for my old master's daughter, Mrs. Lucretia Auld. The
most of my leisure time I spent in helping Master Daniel Lloyd in finding
his birds, after he had shot them. My connection with Master Daniel was of
some advantage to me