FL14425177

44) New South Wales
he was very attentive to mall orders and made himself so useful He was not allowed to proceed with the [?] but kept as cook to the family & from his industry & attention to all visitore he became a general favourite - yet alas he knew nothing of true religion - He believed there was a God - yet he did not hesitate if offended to take His holy name in vain & to curse & swear. It was on some trivial occasion when his passions had been roused that I heard him use those expressions I should not like to repeat & although I knew but little of real Religion myself I knew that it was injurious to his own soul & others especially to children who might hear & learn to swear also. I pointed out to him the impoopriety of such language with its consequent effects & finding that he could not read I offered to instruct