forced to try to get their living by service, a way of life they
were both ill qualified to undertake, for they had always so
accustomed themselves to be waited on and attended, that they
scarcely knew how to help themselves, much less how to work for
others. The consequence of which was, they gave so little
satisfaction to their employers, that they staid but a little time
in a place, and from so frequently changing, no family, who wished
to be well settled, would admit them, as they thought it
impossible they could be good servants whom no one thought worthy
of keeping.

'It is impossible to describe the many and great mortifications
those two young ladies met with. They now frequently recollected
the words of Molly Mount, and earnestly wished they had attended
to them whilst it was in their power, as by so doing they would
have secured to themselves friends. And they very forcibly found,
that, although they were poor and servants, yet they were as
sensible of kind treatment and civility, as if they had been
richer.

'After they had been for some years changing from place to place,
always obliged to put up with very low wages, upon account of
their being so ill qualified for servants, it happened that Miss
Betsy got into service at Watchet, a place about three miles
distant from Mr. Flail's farm. Here she had a violent fit of
illness, and not having been long enough in the family to engage
their generosity to keep her, she was dismissed upon account of
her ill health rendering her wholly incapable of doing her
business for which she was hired. She then, with the very little
money she had, procured a lodging in a miserable little dirty