20 a haie-deessee's expeeience
and I left. After this I obtained a situation in the
family of Mr. G., our recent member of Congress;
and the little baby girl I nursed there, is now in the
fujlblush of early womanhood, whom none can behold
but with admiration and respect; and when I see her
floating along, with the dignity, grace, and ease of a
sylph, upon the street and in the drawing-rooms, I
can scarcely realize that it was I who taught her, in
her babyhood, to walk. But, as I had rather a vaga¬
bond disposition, and loved change, I, soon after this,
left the service of this pleasant family, and engaged
again as child nurse to a sister of this lady, who was
soon to embark with her husband and family for Eu¬
rope— he having been partially promised a foreign
appointment by General Harrison, whi> had just en¬
tered upon his office. The paterna^^^Koth sides of
my new employers were judges, in l^pposition, and
possessed much public influence.
Having accomplished the ceremony of obtaining
passports in Washington City, we sailed from New
York in February on the " Louis Phillippe," and had
a rough passage of twentv-four days across the ocean.
A storm, which lasted fo^^ftiaJ^bonrs, drove us into
the Bay of Biscay. The DassensHB were all fearfully
alarmed, and gathered Themselves together in groups
in the cabin- to die together, if such must be their fate
But our vessel weathered the gale, while many others
sank beneath it, to be heard from no more till the sea
shall give up its dead.
On the twenty-fourth day " Land ho! " was shouted
from the mast-head, and in a few hours na^^our feet
touched the soUlcf France.
It was nighC"when we arrived in Par^^^B'e all
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