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Title: Building the nation : events in the history of the United States, from the Revolution to the beginning of the war between the states
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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AFTER DINNER. beer. The Dutch women worked hard from morning till night, rubbingand scrubbing, spinning and weaving, baking and brewing. The Knick-erbockers slept with a feather-bed above them as well as one beneaththem. No Dutch maiden thought of marriage till she had two beds anda pile of linen sheets and pillow-cases. 96 BUILDING THE NATION. (Chap. VII.
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DUTCH COURTING. On Sunday evenings lovers called upon their sweethearts. When themaidens had their outfit complete their lovers obtained from the Gover-nor a license to be married. The dominie came and married them. Theda\ after the wedding everybody came to shake hands with the bride andbridegroom, and to eat pies, cakes, dough-nuts, and cheese, and drink rum,brandy-schnapps, port, punch, and Madeira. At funerals there was much eating and drinking. Scarfs and gloveswere given to all the deceaseds friends, and it was astonishing the num-ber of friends some had ! They sat around the coffin, and smoked theirpipes and drank wine. The minister drank a glass, offered prayer, thendrank another glass. Everybody joined in the procession to the grave,marching with slow steps, and came back to the house to eat and drink.What eating, and drinking, and carousing when Lucas Wvngaard, of Al-bany, died, in 1756! After the burial the mourners went back to thehouse, sat up all night smoking, eating, a

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