on some giddiness, although not enough to make me stagger.—I went off rejoicing in my success, but I might have been condemn’d as a wine-bibber by a person ignorant of the animal economy.
  4th. Sunday. In the afternoon I was again gasping for breath, and again (sad alternative) went to Vauxhall and drank half a pint of wine.—It had as good effect as the former.—
  This may appear as the commencement of a habit of drinking.—God forbid!—I have reason to think that I have by this means escaped the attack of fits, to which I am certainly disposed by the slighter affections of that kind in the night.
   13th. This day we spent at our new place of residence.* I went to market early in the morning and brought home a leg of lamb and green peas which furnish’d our dinner, with the help of some strawberries &c.! I engaged a little girl (Jane More) to do house work at two dollars a month.—She enter’d upon her service this morning.
   20th. This afternoon, according to arrangement, a party was to be made up for a ride to Belle-vue. This was chiefly for the sake of gratifying my Grand-mother, who, with my Father and Mother,

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*45 Beekman Street.