37/42 Go on." "I was transported to South Carolina, and there served out my term. The climate did not suit me, and I liked not the society, nor--being of a peaceful disposition--the constant alarms of pirates and buccaneers. So when I was once more my own man I traveled north to Virginia with a party of traders. In my youth I had been an Oxford servitor, and schoolmasters are in demand in Virginia. Weighed in the scales with a knowledge of the humanities and some skill in imparting them, what matters a little mishap with hot irons? |