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society, and, with clean hands and in the meekness of wisdom, were qualified to take an active part in conducting the affairs of the church. They attended the general meetings very constantly, and Richard Shackleton took a method with his pupils which was well calculated to maintain order in his absence. He gave in charge to the eldest boy, or to him whom he suspected of being most likely to give trouble, a portion of care over the rest; he arranged matters to the best of his knowledge; he addressed the boys in general; and, above all, he openly committed them to the care of Providence.

The house which contained the family was large; and, though old and inelegant, was comfortable, and became by dint of improvement convenient. Between the house and garden was a large yard, with two squares of grass for the boys to play on. The piers of the garden gate were covered with ivy, the berries of which had been sown by James McConnaughty the day my sister Sally was born, the 6th of Sixth-month, 1760. A broad walk reached from the garden-gate to the old arbour of yew at the upper end of the kitchen-garden, in which were planted several apple-trees. So far as the walk continued through the flower-garden, it was gravelled; thence it became a grass walk, and had at each side thick yew hedges, in the ends of which, as they were intersected by cross-walks, chairs were cut. In the flower-garden were two large yew-trees, all of which my mother used to have trimmed with care, except the tops, which she hoped in time to form into