They travelled about for some time with his regiment, but, after I was born, mother went to settle in Ireland with father's family, and there she had three other children, two boys and a girl.

After this my father was wounded in India, and got his discharge and his half-pay.

He became a kind of under-agent for a gentleman that lived in England, so we were very well off as long as he lived; but he died when I was about twelve years old, and then mother did not well know what to do.

I remember my father's death, and all our trouble, as if it was yesterday.
'She set up a little school, and for some years did pretty well.

She could teach all that the farmers' daughters wanted to learn, and I helped her; so we managed to live.