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At the ti the fa to be able to spell the was not very correct, for I

read "wife of the Above" as a complimentary reference to my father's

exaltation to a better world; and if any one of my deceased relations

had been referred to as "Below," I have no doubt I should have formed

the worst opinions of that ical positions to which my Catechism bound me, at

all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my

declaration that I was to "walk in the saation always to go through the village from our

house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down

by the right's or up by the h, I was to be apprenticed to Joe, and until I could

assunity I was not to be what Mrs Joe called "Pompeyed," or

(as I render it) pae, but if any neighbor happened to want an extra boy to frighten

birds, or pick up stones, or do any such job, I was favored with the

eht not be

compromised thereby, a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf,

in to which it was publicly s were

dropped I have an impression that they were to be contributed