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Title: A family flight around home
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Susan, 1833-1910, joint author
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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.•\ IUKITAN lJAUt.il ) J l; MOLLY STARK*S BONNET. 91 the minister had white bread, for brown bread gave him the heart-burn, and he could not preach upon it, according to the idea ofthe day; but brown bread is now universally considered veryhealthy, and a useful change upon too much white.
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OLD DAYS AND WAYS. If the food of the farmer was plain, so were his clothes, whichwould, to his descendants, be thought to furnish a wardrobe scantyin the extreme. For going to meeting on the Sabbath, and for state occasionsduring the week, he had a suit of broadcloth, or corduroy, whichlasted him a lifetime, and was at length bequeathed, little theworse for wear, with his cattle and his farm, to his son. Thesuit in which his neighbors commonly saw him, the one in which «2 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. he followed the plough, tended the cattle and dozed • in the chimney-corner, was of cloth spun and woven at home. The New England farmer, we may suppose, had no great regardfor the fashions, as he took whatever was supplied to him inwhatever form it came. It is interesting to see how the steeple-crowned hat of the Puritan, with jerkin, small clothes and ruff,gave way to the cocked hat, straight coat, with large cuffs andsquare-toed shoes, introduced in the reign of William and Mary.Th

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