Miss Betty Ford was of the same age with Miss Nanny Spruce, and much of
the same height, and might be called the plainest girl in the school;
for she had nothing pleasing either in her person or face, except an
exceeding fair skin, and tolerable good black eyes; but her face was
ill-shaped and broad, her hair very red, and all the summer she was
generally very full of freckles; and she had also a small hesitation in
her speech. But without preamble, she began her life as follows.