Priscilla,
a blind woman, inhabitant of St James, Clerkenwell, who for many years
would take herself to the wall of the Reservoir of the New River Water-works,
Spa-field, and there seat herself and work on her patchwork quilts.
She did it all herself, the sewing and cutting and even threading of
needles. Priscilla was remarkable for her industriousness, and she compares
favourably to the old woman by the name of Smith who went about London’s
streets first thing in the morning, striking the teeth from dead dogs,
to sell to bookbinders, carvers and gilders as burnishing tools.
