Six of Them

My name is Elizabeth, and I have been married to Nicholas Brooke for twenty-five years. We have seven children, and six of them are girls. Fancy that! Celia, Nancy, Martha, Hester, Jane, Sally. The boy came last but one, and we called him Ambrose. I know a woman who managed her family affairs cleverly. She has six boys and one girl, born after her brothers and therefore sure to marry young.