to defend himself, but I heard long after that he was taken to task by
Thomas Scattergood and another for these vanities of arms and pictures. He
told them that he put the picture where none saw it but ourselves, and,
when they persisted, reminded them sharply, as Mr. Penn had done, of the
crests on their own silver, by which these Friends of Welsh descent set
much store.

I remember that, when the gay young lieutenant-governor had taken his
leave, my father said to my mother, "Was it thou who didst tell the boy
this foolishness of these being our arms and the like, or was it my sister
Gainor?"

Upon this my mother drew up her brows, and spread her palms out,--a French
way she had,--and cried, "Are they not thy arms? Wherefore should we be
ashamed to confess it?"

I suppose this puzzled him, for he merely added, "Too much may be made of
such vanities."

All of this I but dimly recall. It is one of the earliest recollections of
my childhood, and, being out of the common, was, I suppose, for that reason
better remembered.

I do not know how old I was when, at this time, Mr. Penn, in a neat wig
with side rolls, and dressed very gaudy, aroused my curiosity as to these
folks in Wales, It was long after, and only by degrees, that I learned the
following facts, which were in time to have a great influence on my own
life and its varied fortunes.

In or about the year 1671, and of course before Mr. Penn, the proprietary,