Square sampler of silk on linen ground. Dark and light blue, blue-green yellow, cream, brown and tan. Undulating border of vines and leaves in a blue-green color. Center consists of a series of alphabets and numbers with decorative lines between each line. Final alphabet is followed by ollwed by "Best use of Riches" in remaining space. Below is verse in pale ivory color, perhaps faded: "When wealth to virtuous hands is given, It blesses like the dew of heav'n; Like heav'n, it hears the orphan's cries, And wipes the tears from widow's eyes." Caroline Harris The word "cries is added on top between it and tears.