him with a  sorrowful heart, with a line to Mr. Tillinghast. Admitted, a lad, an Apprentice of John Utt, attended by his Mother, who had got a permission from Mr. Broome to be his nurse. I have not been fifty yards from the hosue since Sunday. Evening, wrote a letter to my Brother and a string of Rhyme to my Mother which as it may amuse me, and perhaps somebody else hereafter, I shall subjoin:

To her who has nurs’d me and led me to see
The World & the Objects pertaining to me, 
Has guarded my steps and presserv’d me from falling
Into fire, well, & mill pond when toddling and crawling,
Who has hush’d me to sleep when as cross as a brat’
And spank’d me when needful, the better for that,
Has sent me to School when abroad I would roam
And to Church when I’d rather be sitting at home,
Who taught me in drawing the pencil to handle,
And burn’d up her Cap in the flame of the Candle,
Whose useful Instruction inform’d my young mind
With rules for Behavior & Conduct design’d,
Who set me to reading the Mantuan bard,
Who tells of Aeneas’s traveling so hard
In search of a place which in ages to come
Was to be the foundation of seven hill’d Rome,
With tales of the Arabs my mind did amuse,
Expanded my powers and enlarged my views,
My Home made engaging, invites me to stay
Nor gallop about in the streets after play.

At home or abroad, in this place or t’other
I still shall remember the care of my Mother,
Her advice recollect and her counsels regard,
Since that she declares is her greatest reward.
At the Desk or the Table, wherever you are,
Attending your Flowers or adjusting your hair,
This hard labor’d ditty in shape of a letter
I beg you’ll accept for want of a better.

15th. We lost 3 patients to-day and as many were admitted, one of them a young woman with a little babe. I was inform’d that she was of good family but had run off with a Captain. I believe she is from Scotland, as she was wrapp’d up in a plaid cloak. I amus’d myself in strolling along the shore on the cliffs and took a walk to the head of the lane. 4 of the Committee wer here in the after-noon and were troubled with the complaints of the nurses who had contriv’d to fall out. After they were gone the storm rose a little and Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. Hull came to pretty high words. I am sometimes tempted to resign my station, but, really, I am afraid that like Jonah I shall meet with a worse fate.
   24th. 14 patients were admitted to-day; 4 died, 1 dismiss’d. I have 16 under my care. A man who was in service at Bush-hill during prevalence of