to a convenient place, she mounted, and so rode
away upon the bare back. Being without shoes
or stockings, her bare legs and feet hung dangling
by the side of the governor's horse. Although
William Penn was at this time both governor
and proprietor, he did not think it beneath him
thus to help along a poor bare footed girl on her
way to meeting, and notwithstanding the maxims
and customs of the world, these little kind offices
to those in low stations in life, were so far from
lowering him in the estimation of those he was
appointed to govern, that there perhaps never was
a governor, who stood higher in the opinion of
those governed by him, than William Penn

In repeating this anecdote, the old friend ge-
nerally concluded her story with the observation,
that, there were no such governors now-a-days.

I had the company of O. and
J. J. the latter of whom related to me a tran-
saction of his, when but about 14 years of age,
which manifested a considerable degree of firm-
ness in one so young. At the time of the revolu-
tion, a neighbour was condemned to death tor his
attachment to the English government. Under
these melancholy circumstances, the near connex-
ions of the sufferer, were anxious that the body of
their unhappy relative, should be decently interred
in the family burying ground at Merion; but con-