a thing, though "lick my arse" was a frequent and insulting
invitation for boys to each other.

I saw her nearly every day for a week, and her modesty was soon broken.
Sleeping in the same room with her father, accustomed to being in
the fields or at a mill, such girls soon loose it; but she seemed
indifferent to my embraces, and all the enjoyment was on my side. "I've
not much pleasure in that," said she, "but more when you put your tongue
there." I could not believe that was so in a young and healthy lass, but
being always in a hurry to get my poking done lest her father came home,
used to lick, put up her, spend quickly and leave; but she soon got to
rights. I licked so hard and long the next time I had her, at the side
of the bed; that all at once I felt her cunt moving, her thighs closed,
then relaxed, and she did not answer me. I looked up, she was laying
with eyes closed and said, that what I had done was nicer than anything.
I had gamahuched her till she spent.

After that she spent like other women, when I had her. I tell this
exactly as I recollect it, and can't attempt to explain. She worked at a
paper mill, slack work was the reason of her being at home, now she was
going back to work; I feared a mill hand would get her, and offered to
pay her what she earned; but if she did not go to the mill, her father
would make her work in the fields, and she dare not let him see she had
money.

Indeed the two sisters did not dare to buy the finery they wanted,
because they could not say how they got the money. So back to the mill
she went, it being arranged that she should stay away now and then,
for me to have her. "Oh! won't she," said Sarah "she takes to ruddling
natoral, I can tell you." Sarah said she told her everything I had done
to her, including the licking, and I felt quite ashamed of Sarah knowing
that I was so green, as I shall tell presently.

Fred returned, and I had difficulty in getting her often. My cousins
walked out in the cool of the evening, I with them; often we passed the
cottage, and I made signs if I saw the girls. I sometimes then had her
upright in a small shed or by a hay-stack in the dark, where the hay
pricked my knuckles.

Fred was soon to join his regiment, was always borrowing money of me
"for a shove," and never repaid me; but he was a liberal, good-hearted
fellow; and when in after life I was without money and he kept a woman,
he said, "You get a shove out of ------," meaning his