This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1791 edition. Excerpt: ... .were sold, and we were turned out of the farm and went to a miserable cottage rn the next village., where, as my father was so unused to work, we subsisted for a while on the reluctant charity of my uncle, whose daughters were always reproaching mewith taking thew bread from them. Believe me, Madam, I did all 1 could do to earn it for my father and myself: but what could hands so seeble as mine do towards supporting us both? I made an attempt to see my grandfather, and to implore his pity and protection towards one who had never offended him; but he ordered me to be driven from his door, and never again suffered to appear there: orders which those he had about him were ready enough to execute. I returned home quite disheartened indeed, but still endeavouring to the utmost of my power to procure a support by my labour for my father and myself; I even went out to work in the fields; but all 1 could earn was insufficient that we often wanted necessary food, at least / have often wanted it. But my father had made an acquaintance with a widow woman in the next village, who was said to be worth forty or fifty pounds. She was young too and not ugly, and in less than a year after my dear mother's death, he married her, and we removed to her house. ** The extremes of poverty 1 had before known, bitter as I thought them, were comparatively happiness to what I now endured. I became the servant of my motherin law, only without wages. She soon brought my father an increase of family: to them then I was nurse, and very soon had neither sleep by night or respite by day. I thought it my duty to bear every thing for my father, without murmuring. but as my fatigue and sufferings increased, my dejection increased too, and I was sometimes through mere...