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he really was; for though he was a man of strong passions, yet after his passion was over, his heart was torn with self-reflections, and he would do any thing to make amends: for he was a man of tender feelings, and strong passions; and my Mother has often reproved us children when we have been provoked with our Father’s passions. She would often say, “Children, why do you blame your Father? if he is passionate he is compassionate, and he doth not do like many men, spend his time and his money in public houses taverns or inns, to bring you children to the parish the local administrative system that provided for the poor; but he has been a hard working, careful, industrious man, to keep you from the parish, that you might not suffer, as other poor apprentices do.” And now I must speak of my Father’s tender feelings; for he was as compassionate as he was passionate; for I remember our apprentice maid, when my Brother had fallen out with her, my Father would not permit him to come in his presence to supper, but said it was as good to be a toad under a pair of harrows a heavy frame with teeth used to break up soil, a metaphor for a very uncomfortable position as to be an apprentice under so many masters and mistresses; one master and mistress were enough for any apprentice; and no apprentice in his house should have any more. You may marvel I am writing these particular things; but it is the sixth day, and here I shall rest from my labour: one Master and Mistress shall be enough for all; one GOD and one Lawgiver. And now I shall come to another thing of my Father: He said my temper was such, and my care and industry so great, that no man but a devil could ever fall out with me; and yet he himself, when provoked to passions, without a cause, would fall out: and James Speerway, who worked at his house, working of flax, and slept in the house, had been witness to my Father’s falling out with me, and repeated his words to me: "Your Father says, none but a devil can fall out with you; and now he hath made himself a devil by falling out with you." But I never saw a man in such agonies in