f discussion; and the uncle who is least important is
mentioned in the middle.

IX. Model III

MY PARENTS

Josiah, my father, married young, and carried his wife with
three children into New England about 1682. The conventicles
having been forbidden by law and frequently disturbed induced
some considerable men of his acquaintance to remove to that
country, and he was prevailed with to accompany them thither,
where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with
freedom. By the same wife he had four children more born there,
and by a second wife ten more, in all seventeen, of whom I
remember thirteen sitting at one time at his table, who all grew
up to be men and women and married. I was the youngest son and
the youngest child but two, and was born in Boston, New England.
My mother, the second, was Abiah Folger, daughter of Peter
Folger, one of the first settlers of New England, of whom
honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather, in his church
history of that country, as "a godly, pious, learned
Englishman." I have heard that he wrote sundry small occasional
pieces, but only one of them was printed, which I saw now many
years since. It was written in 1675, in the home-spun verse of
that time and people, and addressed to those then concerned in
the government there. It was in favor of liberty of conscience
and in behalf of the Baptists, Quakers, and other sectaries
that had been under persecution. The whole appeared to me to be
written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom.
The six concluding lines I remember, though I have forgotten the
two first of the stanza; but the purport of them was that his
censures proceeded from good will and therefore he would be
known to be the author:

"Because to be a libeller
I hate it with my heart.
From Sherburne town, where now I dwell,
My name I do put here;
Without offence your real friend,
It is Peter Folgier!"

X. Questions and Topics for Oral Composition

1. What is the subject of "disturbed," line 3?
2. Discuss the subject of "conventicles."
3. To what religious sect did Josiah Franklin belong?
4. Why did he come to America?
5. Who was Cotton Mather?
6. Define "sundry" and "occasional."
7. What is "homespun verse"? Explain the figure.
8. Define "sectari