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CHAPTER III. Domestic Helpers?Hannah Clarke?My First Appearance as
Groomsman?Helping at a Well-Digging?A Colored Family?Naming a Baby.
DOMESTIC HELPERS?HANNAH CLARKE. If I have failed to give you a
bird's-eye view of our Green Hill menage, it has been because our
humbler friends, who assisted in the hard work of the family, have
not been mentioned. These were received more on an equality than is
the custom in cities, and during the long winter evenings were
instructed at a large parlor table, by my eldest brother and
sisters, in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sleepy times were
these to me, and I was dismissed to bed before the closing hour.
But among our assistants was one whose name I write now with lnie
and respect, such as I have felt for but few of my race not
connected with me by family ties. Hannah Clarke (afterwards Bond)
was one of nature's noblewomen. Her family was very respectable;
but, left an orphan while young, and her mother in reduced
circumstances, Hannah was placed with my mother to " bring up." A
most valuable member of our family, and a blessing to it she
became. During the life of my father, at the " old house," she was
my nurse, and we were much attached to each other. Indeed, to this
day I believe she loved me better than her own children. Hannah
assisted in every capacity that was required; but, if I recollect,
took most of her meals at our table, except when " company" came.
Dependable in all she undertook, she was a great relief to my
mother, and was felt to be one of the family. Previous to our
removal from Old Green Hill, the barn caught fire, and in her
anxiety to assist in extinguishing the flames she took up a large
washing-tub filled with water, and with almost superhuman strength,
caused by fright, carried ita considerable distanc...
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