[A Narrative of The Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man. by Noah Davis]@TWC D-Link bookA Narrative of The Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man. CHAPTER II 3/6
But I have learned better since.
I have often wished, when I have been seeking homes for my children, that I could find one like Mrs.Wright.She would spare no pains to teach her servants how she wanted her work done; and then she would spare no pains to make them do it.
I have often looked back, with feelings of gratitude and veneration, to that pious lady, for her untiring perseverance in training me up in the way I should go.
But she is gone, as I trust, to receive the reward of righteousness, in a better world. After I had been under Mrs.Wright's special charge the first year, she could leave me to cook a dinner, or clean the house, or do anything she might set me at, without her being present.
I was now considered fit to take my seat among the hands in the shop. Here I found quite a new state of things.
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