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 affected; she said she could not commit me to the wide world, without first committing me to God who governed it; and then she knelt down with me by her side, and prayed 'GraeiousGarcious [sic] Lord, be pleased to have mereymercy [sic] on my dear boy, To thy care I commend him. Guard him, I beseeehbeseech [sic] theothee [sic], in the many temptations whiehwhich [sic] he is now beginning to encounter. May he with solid piety and honest diligeneodiligence [sic] do his duty in that state of lifolife [sic] in which it hath pleased thee to plaeeplace [sic] him.'—She then gave me her blessing, put a Testament into my poeketpocket [sic], bid me fear God, and always aetact [sic] for my master as I would do for myself.

In my new situation therothere [sic] were to be sure some few things disagreeable. My mistress was peevish and fretful; the cook violent and passionate. But what servieeservice [sic] is there, or indeed, what situation in life, howsoever much above servitude, in whiehwhich [sic] there is not something unpleasant? Every statostate [sic] has its trials; servants have theirs: but if they eannotcannot [sic] learn to put up with some little ineonvenienciesinconveniences [sic], they may ehangechange [sic] their plaeesplaces [sic] every year of their lives, and never be satisfied after all. This is a lesson I have learnt by long experieneeexperience [sic].

Though by God's blessing I had reeeivedreceived [sic] a more religousreligious [sic] education than most ehildrenchilren [sic], it yet soon appeared that I had many faults, which it was neeessarynecessary [sic] for mome [sic] to be eorreetedcorrected [sic] of beforobefore [sic] I eouldcould [sic] become a good servant. At first, when I was sent upon an errand, I was muehmuch [sic] given to loitering.—I was then too young to eonsiderconsider [sic] that by loitering in errands I was wasting what was not my own, but my master's time. Besides this fault, as every thing which I saw and heard in my master's housohouse [sic] was suehsuch [sic] as I had never seen or heard before, I was too apt to talk of it to my old play-fellows, or