"Your father married her when he was dying, because he thought she would take better care of the farm, and of us, than an English woman.

He said we should be taught and sent to school.

Now she saves every farthing for herself, buys us not even one old book.

She does not ill-use us--why?
Because she is afraid of your father's ghost.

Only this morning she told her Hottentot that she would have beaten you for breaking the plate, but that three nights ago she heard a rustling and a grunting behind the pantry door, and knew it was your father coming to spook her.