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and my maſter ſeeing my diligence, puts me forward, and encourages me in ſuch a manner that I have great delight in it, and hope I ſhall anſwer in time your good wiſhes and expectations, and the indulgence which you have always ſhewn There is ſuch good order in the family, as well on my miſtreſs’s part as on my maſter’s, that every ſervant, as well as I, knows his duty, and does it with pleaſure. So much evenneſs, ſedateneſs, and regularity is obſerved in all they enjoin or expect, that it is impoſſible but it ſhould be ſo. My maſter is an honeſt, worthy man; every body ſpeaks well of him. My miſtreſs is a chearful, ſweet tempered woman, and rather heals breaches than rives them: and the children, after ſuch examples, behave to us all like ones’s own brothers and ſiſters. Who can but love ſuch a family? I wiſh, when it ſhall pleaſe God to put me in ſuch a ſtation, that I may carry my ſelf juſt as my maſter does and if I ſhould ever marry, have juſt ſuch a wife as my miſtreſs; and then, by God’s bleſſing, I ſhall be as happy as they are, and as you, Sir, and my dear mother, have always been.— If any thing can make me happier than I am, or continue to me my preſent felicity, it will be the continuance of yours