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I was able to get out to work by the first of October but whenever I took the least cold, I suffered with a violent pain in my eye which lasted sometimes for eight or ten days. That very same year, about two weeks before Christmas, I and my brother were taken down with the measles. It was a severe spell of weather, and mother had us to wait upon and her wood to get. I did not get over the measles until the latter part of Christmas.
We had no sickness in the family for the next year. All things went well until the latter part of 1837. I frequently fell in company with wicked associates, which soon led me to be a profane swearer. I was often found at grog shops and still houses, and some few times came home beastly drunk; and was soon brought to be fond of playing cards, and some times lost money.
Here I will leave my story to drop a word or two of advice to those who may read my narrative. I would advise my young friends to shun bad company as you would a mad dog; they will appear to be your best friends, but all the time your greatest foes. Many an intelligent young man has been brought to the penitentiary and numbers to the gallows.
(Next week: Sanford Rollins Searches for God.)
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