V. Rolled in the mud by the boys of my own charity-school, whom I had exhorted not to daub the passers-by. VI. Abused by their parents for not paying them 25 cents per week for the time I had the boys at school. VII. Hustled by tailors, slop-shopkeepers, and others, for taking part with the needle-women in a strike. VIII. Scolded, scratched, and tumbled down stairs by the needle-women, for advising them to go into domestic service, and take care of their morals. IX. Robbed by a fugitive slave whom I had concealed three days and nights in my house from his master. X. House burnt down by the free blacks (or so it was suspected) for putting the thief as aforesaid into jail, so that his master got him. XI. Whitewashed and libelled on my own back by the stonecutters, for buying wrought marble out of the prison. XII. Tarred and feathered by a gang of the fancy, whom I exhorted at the ring to peace and amity. XIII. Scalded at my own house (which I had converted, at a season of suffering, into a gratis soup-house), and with my own soup, by a beggar, because there was too little meat and too much salt in it. XIV. Soused in the canal by a boat-driver, for rebuking his cruelty to an old barge-horse. XV. Kicked by the horse for taking his part. XVI. Scratched by a cat, for taking her out of a dog's mouth: _item_, bitten by the dog. XVII. Bitten by a rat, which I rescued from a cat: item, scratched by the cat. XVIII. Gored by a cow for helping her calf out of the mire: _item_, the calf splashed me all over with mud. XIX. Beaten about the ears with a half-skinned eel, by a fishwoman, whom I reproved for skinning it alive. Such were some of the unhappy circumstances that rewarded a seven months' life of philanthropy. But there were others to follow still more discouraging and afflicting. CHAPTER IX. CONTAINING A DIFFICULTY.