A square sampler embroidered wtih a stepped diamond cartouche set on point containing alphabets and sayings. Within the cartouche are several alphabets and lines of numbers from 1 to 17. The center section is filled with a poem or prayer, "My God permit me not to be A Stranger..." Below the poem is another line of larger letters "A through K". A line of small cartouches with delicate designs of deer and a trees and.... Below these, in the bottom of the cartouch, bouquets of fowers fill the upper spandrels. The lower spandrels are also filled with floral designs, but emanating from grassy hillocks. The embroidery appears to have been worked in silk upon a very fine ground of wool or silk, See Norfolk Samplers, p. 320 for sampler that has first two lines of saying, but not the second two lines.