93/133 But they should like freedom much better, and should be glad when it came. She said she had been to Kingston (fifteen miles off) with a load of provisions, and had purchased some things to sell to the apprentices. We asked her what she did with her money. "Give it to my husband," said she. "Do you keep none for yourself ?" She smiled and replied: "What for him for me." After we had passed, Mr.B.informed us that she had been an apprentice, but purchased her freedom a few months previous, and was now engaged as a kind of country merchant. |