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This sampler was embroidered by a girl called Mary Bartley in 1862,
aged 12. Girls would work on samplers like this when they were
as young as 8 years old. They needed to have good needlework skills
to make
good wives.
The prayer reads:
Lord Jesus teach
a child to pray
Who humbly kneels to thee
And every night and every day
My Friend and Saviour be.
While
here I live give me thy grace
And when I'm called to die
O' take my soul to see thy face
And sing thy praise on high.
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