It is no great distance from the farm.

Quite an interesting story I have heard in connection with a pottery owned by a very worthy Quaker in a near-by town may interest you, as your father was a Philadelphia Quaker and Ralph's parents were Quakers also." [Illustration: A-38 Schmutz Amschel] [Illustration: A-39 Antiquated Tin Lantern] [Illustration: A-40 Schmutz Amschel] [Illustration: A-41 Fluid Lamp] [Illustration: A-42 Candle Mould] "Yes, indeed, Aunt Sarah! I'd love to hear the story." "This Quaker sympathized with the colored race, or negroes, in the South.

This was, of course, before slavery was abolished.

You don't remember that time, Mary, You are too young.

It is only history to you, but I lived it, and when the slaves ran away from their owners and came North to Philadelphia they were sent from there, by sympathizers, to this Quaker, who kept an underground station.