Ann Smith 
She was apprenticed at fourteen years old (that 
would be in 1845) as a dressmaker under my 
father’s sister Margaret in Farnham. ‘The ap- 
prenticeship was for two years, and the premium 
thirty shillings. She was able every Saturday 
to go back to the old Farnborough home. A 
cart was usually sent to fetch her; but the farm 
business would not allow of such interruption 
to send her back on Monday mornings. She 
went back to her work by coach, the fare being 
eighteenpence for the journey—the seven miles. 
At Farnham she lived in lodgings, at Mrs. 
Frost’s, somewhere in East Street. There one 
of her father’s waggons coming for clay often 
brought food for her from the farm; but for the 
rest she was probably one of the family with her 
employer. ‘The hours of work were from eight to 
eight ; but in busy times they began at six. Truly 
she was proud of being Farmer Smith’s daughter, 
so she laughingly told us in her old age; and once 
she was not a little indignant at a report that 
reached her, to her father’s detriment, she thought. 
Another farmer, having come past the Farn- 
borough farm or pottery, reported that “ Farmer 
Smith was swearing at his men like anything.” 
“So cruel,” Ann thought it ; “‘ so cruel of Farmer 
Hall to say such a thing ”’ of her father. 
Certainly she herself, in all my memory of her, 
never spoke an unkind word about anyone but 
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