[T]hey prayed me to be their Surety for payment of their Ranſom-Money; and herein every one was very forward with his Pretences; one alledged Nobleneſs of Birth; another, that he had great Friends and Alliances; a Third, that he was a Commander in the Army, and had much Pay due to him; a Fourth, that he had Caſh enough at Home, and was able to imburſe me.

… I used to go in the early mornings to shoo the hens from their nests to get the brown eggs with the dark speckles that the cook would fry with saveloy sausages which my grandmother had ordered while the eggs were still warm …

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We were the cutest, quippiest girls there were. We weren't sarcastic, and we weren't selling our bodies for humor or anything like that. We actually got laughs by acting like ladies.