Excerpt from The Greatest Blessing of Life, or the Adventures of Catherine Sinclair: A Domestic, in Search of a Good Mistress
Catherine Susanna, was the eldest child of a country Shoe-maker who lived in a back country village of new-england. James Sinclair was a worthy Christian, but of a slender constitution; his wife had died at the birth of their fourth child, and, ever since, Catherine had supplied her place in their little family. They were poor, but managed to live by hiring a little land and by the profits of their trade, till, in an evil hour, a neighbor who had been successful, persuaded James to remove to a great city at a far distance 'from his rural home. The change in his manner of life, confinnd air.
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