History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . lcome to myhouse. But can you reap? He was full half seas over. He spoke to his wife: Come, Sally, be kind and make a bowl of toddy. Poor, unhappy, hard-conditioned,patient woman! Like us neglected and forsaken Sons of Levi. you should fix on astate of happiness beyond this world. I was in the evening introduced to CaptainHays, a gentleman of civility and seriousness. He begged me to preach a week-daylecture before I leave the neighborhood. At 3Ir. Hayss I saw a large gourd; itheld nine gallons. I saw in the bottom near the bank of the river a s
History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . lcome to myhouse. But can you reap? He was full half seas over. He spoke to his wife: Come, Sally, be kind and make a bowl of toddy. Poor, unhappy, hard-conditioned,patient woman! Like us neglected and forsaken Sons of Levi. you should fix on astate of happiness beyond this world. I was in the evening introduced to CaptainHays, a gentleman of civility and seriousness. He begged me to preach a week-daylecture before I leave the neighborhood. At 3Ir. Hayss I saw a large gourd; itheld nine gallons. I saw in the bottom near the bank of the river a sjcamore orbuttonwood tree, which measured, eighteen inches] from the ground, fifteen feet incircumference. Thursday, July —There is not one in this society but my little wain, said theCaptain to me quite full of whiskey, not one of them all but my little wain tliat cantell yo>i wliat is effectual calling. Indeed, his wain is a lovely girl. Slie is anonly chilli, just now ten years old. She seems to be remarkably intelligent, reads very. d ^^/r-^Cc THE COLONIAL PERIOD. 93 clear, attends well to the quantity of -nords, has a sweet, nervous ^o-Af accent. Indeed,I have not lately been so highly pleased as with this rosy-cheeked Miss Pegg^- Piper keeps a clean hoiise; well-fi.\ed beds—here I have not seen a bug or a flea. Friday, July li.—L^s,t evening after sunset I walked with IMrs. Piper to fourneighbors houses, all within a half a mile. She was looking for harvest hands, whileher ill-conditioned husband was asleep perspiring oS the fumes of whiskey. It is nowseven oclock. There are two reapers. Jliss Piper is out carrying drink to the reap-ers. Her father is yet asleep. Tim is about the house as a kind of waiting is also a close-set young Irish widow who, on her passage, lost her husband andtwo children at sea. She came in Captain McCullochs ship with si.\- hundred pas-sengers, of which one hundred five died at sea, and many more on landing. Mrs
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