If a drunken husband was pounding his wife, the children would run for me.

Hastening to the scene of action, I would take Patrick by the collar, and, much to his surprise and shame, make him sit down and promise to behave himself.

I never had one of them offer the least resistance, and in time they all came to regard me as one having authority.

I strengthened my influence by cultivating good feeling.

I lent the men papers to read, and invited their children into our grounds; giving them fruit, of which we had abundance, and my children's old clothes, books, and toys.