accustomed indulgences, he did, and provided, as well as it was possible, for the hour which brought me into the world, and eventually proved the death of a parent I have ever revered, though I never beheld her.
From the day which gave me birth, although she seemed to recover as well as most women do in the like situation, and at the expiration of a proper time, resumed her family employments: whether she caught cold, had any inward complaints or uneasiness of mind; whatever was the cause, I know not, but she fell into a rapid decline, and her pure spirit fled to Heaven five months after she had given me life.
"'Tis needless to repeat my father's sufferings; a feeling heart may conceive them; when time and necessity compelled him to struggle with his grief, and remember the pledge his darling wife had left him, he resolved to retire into a distant part of the country, that he might devote his whole time to the care of his child. With this dear father I past my life, until near twelve years of
