{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3614", "width": "2392", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No.\\nShelf M_^_S 4*\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "The Salt-Box House", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "The Ornament of the House is Neatness,\\nThe Luck of the House is Contentment,\\nThe Honor of the House is Hospitality,\\nThe Blessing of the House is Piety.\\nLove is the true hey of history", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "The Salt-Box House\\nEighteenth Century Life in a New\\nEngland Hill Town\\n4\\nBy Jane de Forest Shelton\\nNew York The Baker and Taylor Co.\\nFive and Seven East Sixteenth Street", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "29131\\no\\nv\\\\\\nS^\\nTwo Ivfif* Received\\nAUG 3 1900\\nCopyright entry\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDelivered t\u00c2\u00ab\\nORD\u00c2\u00a3ft:DIVfStOK,\\nAUG 7 1900\\n1\\nCopyright, 1900,\\nBY\\nTHE BAKER TAYLOR CO.\\nROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK.", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nFire, with its relentless touch; the paper-mill\\nduring the Civil War with its eager grasp and\\nlarge recompense; and the hand that knows no\\nreverence for Yesterday have combined to\\ncast into the pit of Oblivion much that would\\nnow be deemed priceless. But the faithful\\nseeker along the shores of the Past will find that\\nthere yet remain sheltered beaches where some\\nof the treasures left by the flood of Time have\\nescaped the wear of waves, a careless foot, and\\ncrumpling fingers.\\nThis record of life in the eighteenth century\\nhas been compiled from a careful searching of\\nprivate papers, and by mention of the long-ago,\\na stirring of old memories, parting the mists of\\nthe present and welcoming the wafts of recollec-\\ntion, till the vision dear to the old hearts grew\\nclear, and tradition and knowledge were se-\\ncured.\\n9", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nIt is believed that in the following pages there\\nis not recorded a custom or a costume, an article\\nof use or adornment, a habit of life or of man-\\nner, for which there is not authority for the\\nperiod and locality designated.\\nLife in the various New England colonies had\\nmany common characteristics, but it had also\\ndifferences dependent upon the situation of\\ntowns, their accessibility or isolation, the class\\nof persons founding them, and the possible\\nmeans of subsistence. The purpose of this record\\nis to show the life on one group of hills in west-\\nern Connecticut, which, although typical, had\\nnevertheless some special features.\\nAll life in the primitive days of our country\\nhad its hardships, its trials, and privations, but it\\nhad also its amenities, and although To-day\\nwould not willingly change places with Yester-\\nday, it is quite possible that Yesterday would\\nnot change with To-day.\\nJ. de F. S.\\nGreystone, Derby, Conn., August, 1900.\\n10", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "fn fjonor of tbe Xong*Sgo;\\nAND TO THOSE, WHO, PASSING AN OLD HIGHWAY,\\nSEE THE SIGNS WRITTEN ON MOSS-COVERED FENCES,\\nIN TRACES OF OLD DOOR-YARDS,\\nBY LONE STANDING CHIMNEYS,\\nAND WOULD KNOW THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF;\\nTO THOSE WHOSE PULSES ARE STIRRED\\nAS THEY STAND BENEATH THE LONG SLOPING ROOFS,\\nAND WHOSE HEARTS BOW REVERENTLY\\nAS THEY READ THE RECORDS\\nON THE GRAVE STONES OF THE SEVENTEEN HUNDREDS,\\nSbte book is inscribed.", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\ni\\nThe Touch of Time 15\\nBlack and White\\nVIII\\nWhen the Heir came of Age\\nPAGH\\nII\\nNew England Pioneers 20\\nIII\\nThe Edge of the Wilderness 25\\nIV\\nQueen Esther s Household 29\\nV\\n37\\nVI\\nChurch and Meeting 41\\nVII\\nThe Sunday Outing 47\\n53\\nIX\\nThe Building of the House 61\\nX\\nThe Household Plenishing 68\\n11", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nXI\\nPAGE\\nSupplying the Family Needs\\n7\\nXII\\nThe Daily Life\\n83\\nXIII\\nA Journey to New Haven\\n95\\nXIV\\nThe Mother s Duties\\nin\\nXV\\nMaking New Friends\\n117\\nXVI\\nFire and Light\\n124\\nXVII\\nFishing and Camping\\n134\\nXVIII\\nFashions\\n145\\nXIX\\nThe Tory Non-Combatants\\n150\\nXX\\nThe French Army\\n162\\nXXI\\nThe Uncertain Years\\n168\\nXXII\\nSt. Pumpkin s Day and Christmas\\n176\\nXXIII\\nThe Daughter s Education\\n183\\n12", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nXXIV\\nFAGS\\nYoung Ladyhood 191\\nXXV\\nBooks and Newspapers 200\\nXXVI\\nYouth and Age 213\\nXXVII\\nThe Hour of Sorrow 231\\nXXVIII\\nThe Third Generation 238\\nXXIX\\nGirlhood and Romance 244\\nXXX\\nThe Aged Friend\\nXXXI\\nThe Changing Years\\n251\\n254\\nXXXII\\nAt Home and Abroad 262\\nXXXIII\\nNot a Grim Old Maid 276\\nXXXIV\\nThe Reminiscent Years 286\\nXXXV\\nThe Death of the House 292\\nAppendix 297\\n13", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "History is a landscape, and, like those of nature, it is\\ncontinually changing. Two persons who look at it at the\\nsame time do not find in it the same charm, and you your-\\nself, if you had it continually before your eyes, would\\nnever see it twice alike. The general lines are permanent,\\nbut it needs only a jet of light to bring out ruch or such\\na detail and give it a false value.\\nWhen I began this page the sun was disappearing\\nbehind the ruins of the Castle of Crussol, and the splen-\\ndors of the sunset gave it a shining aureola; the light\\nflooded everything and you no longer saw everywhere the\\ndamage which wars have inflicted upon the old feudal\\nmanor. I looked, almost thinking I could perceive at the\\nwindow the figure of the chatelaine. Twilight\\nhas come, and now there is nothing there but crumbling\\nwalls, a discrowned tower, nothing but ruins and rubbish\\nwhich seem to beg for pity. Introduction to the Life of\\nS. Francis of Assisi by Paul Sabatier.", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nTHE TOUCH OF TIME\\nThe old house looks as if it had stood in the\\npath of a tornado. But it has only yielded to the\\npressure of the hand of Time weighted with the\\nvagaries of New England s climate. Even the\\npyramids of Egypt could not long have held\\ntheir majesty if they had been set on Connecti-\\ncut s hills with her extremes of heat and cold to\\ntry their temper; and the old house, though firm\\nin its foundation and staunch in its up-rearing,\\nafter bearing itself bravely for one hundred and\\nthirty years, fell, as an old man falls by the way-\\nside when the knees give way and the head\\ndrops forward all of a heap!\\nThe house seemed to lose heart when Miss\\nMary died. She was the last of her line, and her\\n15", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nnext of kin, being well placed elsewhere, cared\\nnot for removal. After a brief period of desolation\\nthe alien came to work the land on shares. But,\\nas the strange burr dropped from his tongue,\\nand he set up his cheap modern furniture, the\\nold walls stood aloof and the ceilings withheld\\ntheir benediction. At the end of the season he\\ncomplained that the stairs were awry, the cup-\\nboard shelves aslant, and the childer tripped\\non the wavy floors; so when all these incongrui-\\nties, animate and inanimate, were safely out-\\nside the great door, the latch gave a happy\\nclick as it fell into place, leaving the house alone\\nwith its secrets and its mysteries. And again\\nthe winds brought their joys and sorrows to\\nthe sympathetic chimney, while the sunbeams\\ncame through the unshaded windows to dance\\ntheir old stately measure on the familiar floors.\\nThe old home-makers needed no modern dec-\\norator to tell them that the chimney was the\\nheart of the house. Well they knew that\\nthrough its arteries the life-blood must flow, that\\nit meant warmth, and food, and comfort, all that\\ncentres in a home. And for long this great\\nchimney held itself like a 1 stout heart against all\\n16", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE TOUCH OF TIME\\nodds. But when the frosts of winter and the\\nsuns of summer swelled, and then shrivelled, the\\nmortar lying between the stones at the top till\\nit crumbled out, scattering down to the eaves,\\nand now and again a top-stone fell off, there was\\nno one to know it. And the cellar gathered\\nmore than its share of dampness that worked in\\nbetween the great stones at the chimney s base.\\nThen one night a fierce, unfriendly wind danced\\naround the old walls, mockingly taking hold of\\nthe ridge-pole as if shaking it by the shoulders,\\nand, with a shiver, the great heart failed. Over\\nonto the sloping roof the chimney fell, crashing\\nthrough and carrying down with it shingles,\\nrafters and flooring, down, down, to the cellar\\nitself, filling the great chasm with wreakage\\nhalf-way to the ceiling of the first floor, and\\ntumbling out far beyond the back-door stone,\\nout to the rose-bushes themselves. Stones\\nenough to build a church!\\nIt had been a great house in its day. Built\\nafter the fashion that ruled largely in Connecti-\\ncut for half of the last century, it was more\\nconvenient and commodious than graceful or\\npicturesque. Colloquially, it was called a salt-\\n17", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nbox house, its lines repeating those of the\\nwooden salt-box that hung in the kitchen chim-\\nney. The ridge-pole was set far to the front,\\nfrom which a short roof pitched to the top of\\nthe second story, but the back roof sloped long\\nand curveless down to the outer line of the ceil-\\ning of the ground floor, reaching out a wing\\nbeyond that to cover the L that cuddled close to\\nthe main house.\\nThe chimney too, the house s great centre,\\nwas set well forward. Following the prevailing\\ncustom, irrespective of the highway, the house\\nfaced the south. The wide front door, with long\\niron hinges stretching across it, opened into a\\nsmall hall or entry, from which, by a few\\nsteps, and a landing at top and bottom, the stair-\\ncase, with its quaintly turned balusters, wound\\nagainst the back of the chimney, leading to\\nanother short hall above. From each end of\\nthese entries opened rooms large and square,\\nleading again into other rooms, and on the lower\\nfloor the whole front of the great chimney made\\nthe cheer of the long kitchen.\\nBeyond the house were the many out-build-\\nings; the L covering both a well and a fireplace,\\n18", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE TOUCH OF TIME\\nthe end-kitchen, the little house that made\\nquarters for some of the slaves, the smoke-house\\nand wood-sheds, and beyond these, across the\\ngarden, were the great barns giving shelter to\\nthe various animals that bespoke the necessities\\nof the day when each family lived principally\\nupon its own resources, and there another well\\nwith a long sweep repeated the house-lines\\nin its slope.\\nBuilt in 1758, the house had been the birth-\\nplace of nine children, and its hospitable door\\nwas ever open not only for friend and kindred,\\nbut for the stranger as well. From it had gone\\nforth much that tended to the growth and well-\\nbeing of the neighboring towns, and, in its\\nmeasure, the never-ending influence of good\\nlives and right living on the race.\\n19", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "II\\nNEW ENGLAND PIONEERS\\nThe hardships of the pioneer, in any land,\\nresult largely from seventy of climate and the\\ndistance from those necessities of life that the\\nnew country does not supply, while his success\\ndepends upon more than industry and persever-\\nance. The Mayflower company and the 25,000\\ncolonists that came to New England in the first\\ntwenty years of its settling brought with their\\ncarved chests, their big Bibles, their supply of\\nlinen and pewter, a store of faith and courage,\\nof fine enthusiasm and unflinching purpose, to\\nbe daunted neither by fear of the savage nor the\\nmight of Nature s barriers, proving the force of\\ncivilization in subduing the untamed native, and\\nmaking of rock, and tree, and soil, both friend\\nand vassal.\\nTwenty years from the landing at Plymouth\\n20", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "NEW ENGLAND PIONEERS\\nRock found the first great Indian war success-\\nfully ended, and hundreds of settlements, not\\nonly along the coasts and by the mouths of the\\nrivers, but the wilderness had been threaded,\\nand homes were set beside the upper waters.\\nFollowing an inherent law of succession where\\nman has been man will be the footprint of the\\noutgoing Indian proved often a loadstone to\\nthe incoming colonist. The site of clustered\\nwigwams became a centre for groups of low log-\\nhouses, soon superseded by more ambitious\\ndwellings as numbers grew and various crafts-\\nmen put their hands to the up-building.\\nCupheag, on Long Island Sound, near the\\nmouth of the Housatonic River, deserted by the\\nred man after the Swamp Fight at Fairfield,\\nthus became the foundation settlement for a\\nband of pioneers from the Connecticut colony at\\nHartford. Friendly relations were established\\nwith the not-far-ofT Indian, who, charmed by the\\nadornments and appliances of civilization, gladly\\nexchanged broad tracts of the one commodity\\nthat to him seemed inexhaustible land for\\ncoats and kettles, for knives and rifles, for\\nspoons and powder, until eventually groups and\\n21", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nranges of forest-covered hills were added to the\\ntownship, stretching its measure on the river\\ntwelve miles northward, and spreading seven or\\neight to the west. Extent of territory was the\\naim of towns and of individuals. Great pur-\\nchases were made and divided by lot among\\nthe original proprietors, thus giving to Ameri-\\ncans the term still used to designate a portion\\nof land.\\nIn western Connecticut the upland soil is often\\nricher than that of the valleys, and as adventur-\\nous spirits were not lacking, centres of settle-\\nment focussed here and there among the\\nclustering hills, until Stratford, as Cupheag\\nbecame to the while man, increasing in power\\nand numbers, formed one of the most important\\ntowns in the Colony.\\nIn 1686 a young Englishman arrived at its\\nport of entry, applied for permission to build a\\nwarehouse and dock, and successfully conducted\\na large shipping and mercantile business. In\\n1692 he made fitting choice, for a bride, of a\\nWethersfield maiden, the granddaughter of one\\nof the early colonial governors, and closely al-\\nlied to other prominent families of the older\\n22", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "NEW ENGLAND PIONEERS\\nsettlements. Early in 1700 these two, Daniel\\nand Elizabeth, with their children, removed\\nfrom Stratford village to Long Hill, about eight\\nmiles northward, where Daniel s landed interest\\nwas a tract two miles square, reaching eastward\\nthrough Corum to the river. Near the crest of\\nLong Hill he built him a house.\\nFashion knows no law, but, while it may result\\nfrom a freak, or fancy, or even a mischance in\\nthe weaving, it is sometimes the result of so pro-\\nsaic a cause as taxes. Queen Anne laid a tax on\\nall two-story houses in the colonies, and the most\\nloyal subject was justified in planning his house-\\nwalls to avoid an unnecessary expenditure.\\nThis tax gave rise to an architecture graceful\\nand inviting, with long curving roofs sloping\\nevenly from each side of the ridge-pole to the\\nupper line of the first story, thus giving but one\\nstory that would count, while the roof covered\\ntwo or three more. The first house built on\\nLong Hill was of this order, and it was believed\\nthat this beautiful level hill-crest, with its outlook\\nacross the Sound to the shores of Long Island,\\nwould prove a centre; but fate, like fashion,\\ntakes its own course, and the real centre for this\\n23", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ndistrict developed four miles westward, where\\nthe east and west spraynes of the Far-Mill\\nRiver joined their forces at the favorite Indian\\nrendezvous of Acquunkquoke high-land.\\nWith this district and centre Daniel was\\nclosely identified from the beginning, naming it\\nRepton, in memory of his English home, and\\ngathering its able-bodied men under his com-\\nmand as lieutenant of the train-band, the\\nhighest officer the small parish could then sus-\\ntain, sixty-four men being necessary to allow a\\ncaptaincy.\\nQueen Anne died, and the tax-law changed;\\nDaniel s children reaching maturity, a larger\\nhouse was built almost in touch with the old\\none, but although both have disappeared, the\\nlilac-bushes still stand by the old stone-wall, and\\ntell the tale of parents and children, of young\\nmen and maidens, who lived and loved.\\n24", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Ill\\nTHE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS\\nIn 1728 Daniel died, leaving, besides the\\nwidow Elizabeth, two daughters and seven sons.\\nThe daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah, were\\nalready married. Joseph, the eldest son, having\\nmarried his second cousin, Mary of Glastonbury,\\nhad lifted his roof-tree not far from that of his\\nfather, and Daniel Jr., having found his Mary in\\nFairfield, had been assigned a part of the pater-\\nnal estate in Corum. In 1733 Thaddeus, the\\nthird son, following Joseph s example, won for\\nhis queen and consort Esther, the sister of Mary\\nof Glastonbury, and decided to settle on a cer-\\ntain tract of two hundred and sixty acres, a part\\nof his inheritance, lying near Stratford s extreme\\nnorthern boundary, called the Upper White\\nHills.\\n25", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nRoads were still few and only an Indian trail\\nled into, and through, this unbroken forest; but,\\nwith axe and energy, the trail widened, a site\\nwas chosen, a clearing made, the small house\\nbuilt after Queen Anne s fashion took form,\\nand the home in the wilderness was not without\\ncomfort. Queen Esther must have borne her\\nlord a large love to be willing to leave the colo-\\nnial centre for this isolation, and brave natures\\nwere those of all who were not deterred from\\nfrontier life by thought of the uncertain Indian\\nor prowling wolves.\\nThe house was set back about ten rods from\\nthe road, the gable end facing it and the south,\\nand a great door opened into the chief room\\nwith its wide fireplace and oven. At one side\\nand at the back were other rooms, a staircase led\\nto the half-story above, and adjoining the house,\\nat an angle, was the additional building for the\\nslaves, then a part of so many households.\\nAcross the front of the house ran an uncovered\\nporch, two great stones leading from it down\\nto the stretch of meadow that lay between the\\nhouse and the path out to the world. The land\\nsloped slightly on the western side, giving free\\n26", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS\\nentrance to the cellar, which in its turn had both\\nfireplace and oven.\\nNo other house was in sight, and as neighbors\\ncame, one at a mile s distance was counted near.\\nBut a man did not mind a long stretch of acres\\nbetween him and his neighbor if only they were\\nhis own acres, and solitude was not then out of\\nfashion. Those were days without hurry, and\\nneither time nor effort was an objectionable fac-\\ntor. Life was busy with its necessities and its\\nprimitive limitations; ambition was for the\\nfuture, not for the present.\\nQueen Esther loved her liege and her little\\nhome, and when a boy was born to them to bear\\nthe name of his grandfather Daniel, her heart\\nglowed with pride. And she loved her flower-\\ngarden, the lilacs and syringas, and the roses\\nshe had brought from her Glastonbury home,\\nthe white Star of Bethlehem and bunches of\\ngreen live-for-ever; and she cherished a root of\\nwormwood, and sweet sicily, and other herbs of\\nvalue to the medical laity. But among all these\\nchildren of the soil she loved best her bed of\\nlilies, the large tawny-yellow garden-lily, that\\nsends up from its cluster of narrow, curving\\n27", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nleaves a tall stem, to be crowned with gay blos-\\nsoms. So, if an Indian came on no more un-\\ncomfortable errand than a thirst for cider, and\\nthe only wolf s-brush she saw was motionless,\\nlife had little cause for fear and much for\\nrejoicing.\\n28", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "IV\\nQUEEN ESTHER S HOUSEHOLD\\nToil and tool won their way through the\\nforest. The Indian s trail became the white\\nman s highway, and the great trees had other\\ndestiny than to be always pointing skyward.\\nThe wide chimney-place called them to her burn-\\ning heart; they must be dressed on the ground\\nwhere they fell for the great barns that were to\\nbe built; and lands afar that lacked them proved\\ntheir value for export.\\nNature scattered her boulders in New Eng-\\nland with an unstinting hand; but the rich\\nvirgin soil repaid the labor of separation, and\\nthe long lines of stone-walls that divide field\\nfrom field testify to the untiring energy and\\nlabor. They are now frosted with beautiful\\nlichens that have spread their starry growth\\nthrough a hundred and fifty years and more,\\n29", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nand tell to-day s wayfarer of the skill and pa-\\ntience of the hands, white and black, and perhaps\\nred too, though the Indian liked not hard work,\\nthat thus put nature in bonds. Field after field\\nlifted a smooth face to the bending skies, till the\\nlevel hill-tops and sloping hill-sides were check-\\nered with wheat and rye, with flax and barley,\\nwith corn and clover; and the barns grew wider\\nand the coffers fuller, while the fulness of con-\\ntent reigned within the little house, as Nature s\\nlargess did without.\\nAlthough the elder Daniel died in 1728, his\\nestate was not finally divided until after the\\ndeath of his widow, nearly twenty years later.\\nDaniel had grown in wealth, and as England\\nhad laid a restraining hand on manufacturing,\\nland was almost the only investment. His hold-\\nings covered large tracts in towns far and near,\\nand he retained a mercantile interest as part\\nowner of the sloop Indeavor, that flitted be-\\ntween the various colonial ports and the West\\nIndies. His estate inventoried nearly \u00c2\u00a39000, of\\nwhich about \u00c2\u00a31000 was money out in bonds,\\nprincipal and interest. Five guns served in the\\ndefence and provisioning of the household.\\n30", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "QUEEN ESTHER S HOUSEHOLD\\nThe live-stock comprised 10 horses and mares,\\n3 colts, 13 cows, 17 calves, 16 oxen, 40 sheep, 5\\nswine, and 10 pigs, to which may be added 8\\nslaves, one of whom was an Indian valued at \u00c2\u00a345.\\nAlthough the furnishings of the day included\\nlittle beyond practical ones, those were in abun-\\ndance. Coarse earthenware and hollow iron\\nvessels were made early in colonial days; Eng-\\nlish pewter and brass-ware supplemented these,\\nand the wooden vessels that, made at hand,\\nformed a large part of the household service.\\nHolland supplied the finer linen and blankets.\\nNiceties of dress, English broadcloth with large\\nsilver buttons, muslin neck-cloths, all the better\\nclothing and adornments of the women, were of\\nimportance and were brought across the seas.\\nBooks, as far as obtainable, ever came into the\\nlife, and, even although the list shows them as\\nunattractive in their nature as Arguments be-\\ntween ye Church and Dissentry, Concern-\\ning ye Catechism/ Concerning Quakers, A\\nSermon Book, etc., religious subjects being of\\nparamount interest, they were highly valued.\\nBut the prize of the small library of two Bibles,\\ntwo service books, ten bound books and four-\\n31", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nteen small books with paper covers and with-\\nout, was the Great History Book Dug-\\ndale s History of the Late Troubles in England,\\n1680, a large folio that Daniel had brought with\\nhim from his fatherland, in the carved chest,\\nwith the little red morocco and the guilded\\nleather trunk-shaped boxes, the delicate steel\\npipe, and other relics safely harbored on the\\nshores of to-day.\\nFollowing the English custom, the eldest son\\nreceived a double portion, and the setting out\\nof the daughters at marriage formed usually the\\nchief part of their allotment. Such division of\\nthis estate was gradually made as the needs of\\nthe children required. When Daniel died Eliza-\\nbeth had still five unmarried sons, but within a\\ndecade John died; Thaddeus, Samuel, James,\\nand finally Josiah, the youngest, married. Ac-\\ncording to custom, Josiah remained with his\\nmother, although Elizabeth did not, as was\\nusual, maintain a separate life in part of the old\\nhome, but was still mistress-in-chief of the entire\\nhouse.\\nThaddeus s marriage, like that of Joseph, was\\nespecially pleasing to her, for Mary and Esther\\n32", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "QUEEN ESTHER S HOUSEHOLD\\nwere of her kindred. They had many common\\ninterests, their family home being in touch with\\nthe one she left so long ago when Daniel won\\nher youthful allegiance. And when the glad\\nnews came that a young Daniel had opened his\\neyes on the world, neither her threescore and\\nfive years nor the rough journey deterred her\\nfrom hastening to pay her homage, and to hold\\nto her heart this successor to her dear husband s\\nname and lineage.\\nThaddeus had inherited one of his father s\\nslaves, an African born, named Cufifee, and Es-\\nther s handmaid, Dorcas, had cast her spell\\nover him when, as body-servant, he had accom-\\npanied his master to Glastonbury. This pair,\\nduly married, had their place in the wing\\nof Thaddeus s house, and proving themselves\\ntrustworthy, as the summer days grew long and\\nthe breeze blew soft, they were left in charge\\nfor a few days, while the little family made a\\njoyful pilgrimage to the ancestral home. Thad-\\ndeus s best pacing-mare being duly saddled and\\npillioned, the full saddle-bags adjusted, and the\\nlast directions given to the darker part of the\\nhousehold, Thaddeus threw himself into the sad-\\n33", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ndie, and then from the porch s end Esther\\nmounted, settled herself well on the pillion, with\\nher feet resting on the little narrow shelf made\\nfor their support. Cuffee busied himself mak-\\ning sure that the dark blue pillion-cloth pro-\\ntected her dress from the horse s flank, while\\nDorcas held the precious baby till all should, be\\nin order. Then Esther, receiving him, held him\\nfast and comfortably with her left arm, a dust-\\ncloth of striped linen was carefully tucked about\\nher, and under her feet, and, putting her right\\narm around her husband s waist, all were ready\\nto start.\\nThe mouse-colored mare paced carefully as if\\nshe knew what a precious burden she carried.\\nThaddeus gave an occasional word of warning\\nthat Esther might grip his coat tightly as a\\nrough stretch of road or a steep descent lay\\nbefore them, turning a happy face over his\\nshoulder when safer ground was reached, and\\nquickening the mare s gait on a long level, laid\\nhis hand tenderly over Esther s as she held to\\nhim. The baby slept and waked to meet the\\nloving eyes of which he was already so sure. As\\nthey passed the occasional houses a friendly\\n34", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "QUEEN ESTHER S HOUSEHOLD\\ngreeting came from open window or door-yard,\\nbut Thaddeus did not draw rein until the long\\neight miles were safely travelled and his respon-\\nsibility over, as the dear old home he had left for\\nthe still dearer small one was outlined against\\nthe sky, and his mother at open door, in her\\nsecond-best black crape gown, with white linen\\nhand-ruffles, muslin apron and cap, waited in\\nwelcome. Many hands, white and black, sought\\nto aid in the alighting, to take the young\\nheir from his mother s arms, to carry in the\\nsaddle-bags, to remove Esther s light riding-\\ncloak, and to give the mare loving pats and tell\\nher she had brought her valuable burden safely.\\nJoseph and Mary came down the highway with\\ntheir pair of toddling little girls, brothers and\\nsisters meeting joyfully, while the little ones\\ngazed in awe at the wonderful double-cousin.\\nSo there was joy in all hearts, as there was\\nplenty at the long table, set out with the best\\nHolland napkins, with shining pewter tank-\\nards and plates and basons; over the coals in the\\nchafing-dish savory meat was cooking, and flip\\nsteaming in the large tankard that a health\\nmight be drunk to the new-comer.\\n35", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nThe baby Daniel, come to receive the bene-\\ndiction of his grandfather s roof, was praised by\\nthe tall uncles, adored by the enthusiastic slaves,\\nand caressed by his grandmother to the delight\\nof his parents, then safely put to sleep under\\nthe fine Dutch blankets in the wainscot\\n(panelled) bed hung with dimity curtains and\\nvalances, in the great chamber, where a fire\\nwas lighted lest some lingering breath of winter\\nmight be in hiding. While the brothers, wan-\\ndering from field to field, or sitting on the wide\\ndoor-stone, talked their man s talk of land and\\nlive-stock, of tax and interest, of church and\\nstate, the fire burned low in the deep chimney-\\nplace, glinting now and then on the women s\\ngold beads or on the rings on Elizabeth s thin\\nhand, as she and the child of her adoption took\\nsweet counsel, every vision of Esther s for her\\ninfant son recalling to the woman whose\\nearthly life was so nearly completed her own\\nyoung hopes and dreams, and she lifted a grate-\\nful heart for the true, manly sons and faithful\\ndaughters who arose to call her blessed, proving\\nin themselves that in her widowhood she was\\nblessed.\\n36", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "V\\nBLACK AND WHITE\\nThe savage side of life was still active. Eye\\nand ear were alert, not only lest the friendliest\\nIndian might become a foe, but also for sign of\\nbear or wolf or rattler. Courage was always\\nat hand and on guard, the signal of safety.\\nThe seasons waxed- and waned, and it was with\\nan ever thankful heart that the young mother\\nsang the lullaby dear to hundreds of thousands\\nthat speak the English tongue:\\nHush! my dear; lie still and slumber,\\nHoly angels guard thy bed,\\nHeavenly blessings without number\\nGently fall upon thy head.\\nThe baby outgrew his cradle and was pro-\\nmoted to a trundle-bed, and, although no brother\\nor sister was born to him, little Jube (Jubal), the\\nchild of Cuffee and Dorcas, was his playmate,\\n37", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nfriend, and slave. By the winter fireside, as\\nEsther sat at one end of the chimney-place\\nturning the flax-wheel with her foot and deftly\\nspinning the thread, the two boys, white and\\nblack, sat on a bright red rug before the fire,\\nbuilding houses of corn-cobs, and when the\\nsummer sun glowed through the branches of\\nthe great oak-tree that shaded the house, the\\nlarge wheel was set on the porch, so that as Es-\\nther stepped back and forth, turning the wheel\\nwith one hand and holding the rolls of carded\\nwool with the other, her watchful eye kept in\\nsight the children playing on the shady grass.\\nAs they grew older, both were called to her\\nside to learn the Lord s Prayer, and from the\\nNew England Primer not only the alphabet,\\nbut those lessons mystical indeed to the young\\nmind:\\nIn Adam s fall\\nWe sin-ned all.\\nXerxes did die,\\nAnd so must I.\\nThe law of all the New England colonies made\\nearly provision for the establishment of schools.\\nEach town was divided, fifty families being re-\\n38", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "BLACK AND WHITE\\nquired to make a district and to support a\\ndistrict school. To avoid taxes, the school\\nbuildings were placed on the highways, and\\nfrequently near cross-roads. The increase of\\nsettlers in this part of the great town of Strat-\\nford did not call for a school within a moderate\\ndistance of Thaddeus s house until Daniel had\\nlearned all that the little primer could teach, and\\ncould also read from the great Bible, or the\\nPrayer Book, with ease and understanding.\\nThe prize of early education was the mother s to\\nbestow, and its value was fully realized.\\nThe clearing of land, the tilling of the soil, and\\npreparing for export the various products, were\\nnot the only occupations of the householder.\\nHe was hunter also, and royal game awaited\\nthe wary and skilful. The blunderbuss proved\\nan effective instrument. Its bore, slightly flaring\\nand well loaded with buckshot, could hit more\\nthan one mark among a flock of wild turkeys,\\nwhose heads were clustered over carefully scat-\\ntered corn. And where was the white or dark-\\nskinned boy or man who could not build an\\nambush of brush and wait patiently, weapon in\\nhand, for the descending flock? Deer also were\\n39", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ndecoyed by salt placed at the base of rocks be-\\nhind which the hunter might safely wait, and\\nwild pigeons in their autumnal flight were\\ncaught in a spring-pole net so carefully set\\nthat when the flock were busy over the kernels\\nof grain, the man or boy concealed behind a\\nbreastwork of brush could spring the net over\\nthem all. There were quails, and partridges, and\\ngray squirrels, in the native forests, the deep\\nbrooks near the river yielded trout, while the\\nriver itself was a highway, not only for lesser\\nfish, but for the well-bred shad and even the\\nroyal salmon. Nor was the Sound too far to\\nprevent its delicate shell-fish from adding their\\nvariety, while its shores lent samphire and wild\\nasparagus to the list of lighter foods that the\\nsmooth fields and gardens afforded.\\nAnd Daniel grew tall and straight and slim\\nlike the young saplings in the sprout-land, a joy\\nand a comfort to those who sought always to set\\nhis feet in right paths, while Jube, proud of his\\nyoung master, faithful and devoted in his ser-\\nvice, was ever his right hand.\\n40", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "VI\\nCHURCH AND MEETING\\nBy the time the years had slipped along the\\nstring of the century till fifty were counted,\\nmany daring spirits had broken ground and set\\ntheir dwellings on various hills and in the for-\\nests, so shortly before the home of only the na-\\ntive beasts and children. Civilization sent its\\nsmoke heavenward and opened shaded places to\\nthe light and warmth of sunny skies; the paths\\nwere no longer those pressed by tread of\\nmoccasin, but the iron-shod horse and ox\\nwore the grass from the soil, and highways that\\nmark the white man threaded the forests and\\nwound between the cultivated fields. But few\\nIndian names remained, the Yankee preferring\\nthose more significant to himself.\\nRepton, or Ripton, as with supreme indif-\\nference to vowel sounds it became, included in\\n41", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nthose years a large district, and its principal and\\ncentral settlement was the Centre for all the\\noutlying branches. Like most New England\\nvillages, it was clustered about a green, a long\\nnarrow triangle in form, which was indeed the\\nvery heart of that centre its discipline, its con-\\nscience, its faith. At the northern end the\\nbase of the triangle stood whipping-post and\\nstocks, a little stretch of green lay between\\nthem and the meeting-house, which, on the\\nother side, was separated by a school-house from\\nthe church; the church was in an upper corner\\nof the graveyard, the church-people being\\nburied near the walls they loved, the meeting-\\nfolk beyond, and the slaves against the farther\\nfence. In fact, this green was an epitome of\\nhuman life as conceived at that day, starting\\nwith total depravity, symbolized in whipping-\\npost and stocks, through school and church, by\\nlesson, prayer, and psalm, down to the grave,\\nthe common end of all.\\nIf a bird s-eye view could be vouchsafed of one\\nof those far-away Sunday mornings, it would\\nshow a net-work of roads crossing, binding, sur-\\nrounding, the successions of hills, ridges, and val-\\n42", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "CHURCH AND MEETING\\nleys, and from the various localities, from Bag-\\nburn and Barn Hill, from Moose Hill and Wal-\\nnut Tree Hill, from Booth s Hill and Long Hill,\\nfrom Corum and The Landing, from Paul s\\nPound and Fool s Hatch, from Isinglass and\\nTrap-fall, from Pishponk and Hammertown,from\\nTurkey Roost and Knells Rocks, from all points\\nof the compass, the face of man and beast turned\\ntoward the Centre. Distances were often\\ngreat, but Time was then a slave, not a master,\\nand, taken by the forelock, four or six miles\\nof jog-trot or easy pacing might well be ac-\\ncomplished. The meeting-house was a plain,\\nbarrack-like structure in exterior, but the in-\\nterior, with its large square pews, was not un-\\ninviting. The pulpit was high, with a sounding-\\nboard above it, and the deacon s seat below,\\nbefore which was an adjustable shelf serving\\nfor the communion table. The pews had very\\nhigh backs, showing only the heads of the oc-\\ncupants, and with seats on the four sides. The\\nseat next the aisle was short, being broken by\\nthe door, and the one facing the pulpit being\\nnaturally the seat of honor, the other side seat\\nand that with the back to the pulpit were the\\n43", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nlast to be occupied. As the feeble and aged\\nnaturally sought support when standing during\\nthe long prayer, the custom arose of turning\\nfrom the pulpit in order to rest the hand on the\\nback of the seat.\\nThe choir occupied the middle gallery, seats\\nbeing assigned to the slaves in the side galleries,\\nmen and women sitting on different sides.\\nThe church was also an unpretentious build-\\ning, nearly square, with a bell-tower and pointed\\nwindows. The pews and galleries were like\\nthose in the meeting-house, and the pulpit was\\nthe very high three-decker with reading-desk\\nbelow it, and the altar below that. In both\\nhouses of worship the music was led by a\\nchorister, who, having found the key in which\\nthe chant or psalm was to be sung, sounded the\\nnote on his wooden pitch-pipe, then, those sing-\\ning the different parts being properly grouped,\\nwith a bow to each set of men-singers and\\nwomen-singers, he gave to each the desired note\\nfor air, counter, bass, and tenor; then all sounded\\ntheir individual notes in unison, and then started\\nthe psalm for the congregation to follow. The\\npitch-pipe remained in use till the tuning-fork\\n44", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CHURCH AND MEETING\\nwas invented, that giving place early in this\\ncentury to a bassoon in the church, and a bass-\\nviol in the meeting-house, until organs sup-\\nplanted both.\\nThe sermon was the chief intellectual feast of\\nthe time, and some of those that have reached\\nthe hand of to-day are written on a score or less\\nof small pages, 4x6 inches in size, stitched to-\\ngether with a thread of linen or of blue yarn\\nmere headings for discourses that must have\\nheld their hearers through a long hour. It was\\nan age of thought, not of research, and the\\npreacher, however great his power, or loved in\\nperson, must recognize the fact that a jury of\\ndeep-thinking hearers would sit in judgment\\nupon any tinge of unorthodoxy, any letting-up\\non doctrine or pulling-down of standard; that\\nthe word spoken must be like apples of gold in\\npictures of silver.\\nThe mind of the day was argumentative.\\nEach man thought his own thoughts and longed\\nto measure them with others. So much manual\\nemployment gave opportunity for reflection, and\\nthe comparative isolation made argument, when\\nopportunity offered, natural and welcome. The\\n45", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nSunday sermons were the event of the week,\\nand the legitimate subjects for comment, for crit-\\nicism or approval. A knotty point was a ker-\\nnel for meditation and discussion, and woe to\\nthe preacher who imagined his people napping\\nwhen he tripped in a statement!\\nWomen and men were alike interested in\\nthese subjects, for, although the New England\\nministers, who were really the public educators,\\nhad, since the days of Anne Hutchinson s defi-\\nance, discouraged the instruction of women in\\nmore than reading and writing, their minds, as\\nalert and interested as those of the men, were\\nnot a whit behind in their measure and judg-\\nment. And it was this absorbing interest in\\nsacred things, this centering of the mind on\\nquestions pertaining to eternity, that gave to\\nthem, as Emerson said, that refinement which\\nno education and no habit of society can bestow,\\nthat delicacy and grandeur of bearing which be-\\nlong to a mind accustomed to celestial conversa-\\ntion. Beauty cannot be separated from the\\neternal.\\n4 6", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "VII\\nTHE SUNDAY OUTING\\nThe Church had had a hard struggle to gain\\na foothold in the New England colonies. The\\nChurchman as well as the Puritan was moved\\nby the spirit of adventure the vent which\\nDestiny offers and to prove the promise of\\ngain in a new country. That the Puritan\\nbrought with him, to exercise toward the\\nBaptist, the Quaker, the Churchman, the same\\nspirit of intolerance from which he fled, was\\npart of humanity s circumference and sure to\\nappear as the wheel turned. The Churchman\\naccepted the situation, taking his children to the\\nmeeting-house for baptism, and joining the\\nHalf-way Covenant, until the keenest edge of\\nPuritanism had been worn down and he was\\nallowed to build and to worship according to his\\ndesires. But a barrier remained. Church-folk\\n47", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nand meeting-folk drew apart, though the gulf\\nwas often bridged by matrimonial alliances, mar-\\nriage, whether resulting from a random shot or\\na nice adjustment of the balances, being always\\na leveller of distinctions.\\nThe Church which the elder Daniel was in-\\nstrumental in planting in Ripton grew in power,\\nhis children to the third and fourth generations\\nbeing blessed by its offices, serving also in turn\\namong its chief supporters. Its first permanent\\nrector, the Rev. Christopher Newton, having\\ngone to England in 1755, as all must at that time,\\nto receive Episcopal ordination, lived out a long\\nlife among his flock, and the meeting-house had,\\nfor over fifty years, in the Rev. Jedediah Mills,\\nno less saintly or beloved a pastor.\\nThere seems an irony of fate in the fact that,\\ndespite Puritan prejudice, in part of Connecti-\\ncut at least, a custom obtained for several gen-\\nerations of calling the Church clergyman\\nparson and the one at the meeting-house\\npriest. The cause is unsolved, but Parson\\nNewton and Priest Mills were familiar\\nterms of those far-off years.\\nThe regular church-rate was two pence on the\\n48", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE SUNDAY OUTING\\npound of the individual s tax-list, or its equiva-\\nlent in any of the necessaries of living at their\\nmarket value. A minister s saddle-bags might\\nbring home from a parochial visit part of a pa-\\nrishoner s dues in cheese or vegetables, or a load\\nof hickory wood left at his door served a like\\npurpose. Mr. Mills s salary was at first fifty\\npounds a year, to be increased as the society\\nbecame able to do so. In 1800 the salary of the\\nrector of the Episcopal church was fixed at\\none hundred pounds lawful money and forty\\nloads of wood.\\nFierce must be the elements or decided the\\nphysical weakness that diverted master or mis-\\ntress, child or slave, from the Sunday outing.\\nAnd save under stress of storm, those living be-\\nyond the Centre found the journey itself not\\ndevoid of interest. The jog-trot by a neighbor s\\nside, the chance meetings at cross-roads which\\nmight hold charm for the young people, the easy\\ncanter to overtake the sturdy farmer with a de-\\nmure damsel behind him on a pillion, who was\\nrecognized from afar; the lagging behind,\\nwhether a-foot or a-horseback, as the hill-road\\nand its riders were plainly seen; the chance, un-\\n49", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ntrammelled by one s own affairs, to measure\\nthose of others, the fields of grain, the cord-wood\\npiled, the house a-building; and from many a\\nturn in the various roads a glimpse far or near\\nof the blue Sound and the white shore of Long\\nIsland, with sometimes a whiff of salt-breeze as\\nif the scudding sails had sent it. There were\\ngreetings before the church-porch, assiduous as-\\nsisting to alight at the convenient horse-block,\\nand subdued chuckles as the negroes flashed\\ntheir eyes in recognition. Then in the solemn\\nhours of service, though children might fidget\\nand tithing-men be active in keeping lawless\\nspirits restrained, priest and parson were para-\\nmount, teaching, leading, inspiring attentive\\nsouls, fervent themselves and rousing fervor in\\nothers.\\nThe churches were cold, but the theology,\\nespecially in the meeting-house, was hot.\\nCoal-scuttle bonnets and foot-stoves had not\\ncome in. The women all wore hoods, thicker\\nor thinner according to season, which were\\nthrown back during the service. In the church\\nthe collection was received on pewter plates re-\\nserved for the purpose; in the meeting-house\\n50", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE SUNDAY OUTING\\nthe deacons spread their bandanna handker-\\nchiefs over their tall hats and received therein\\nthe alms of the faithful.\\nThe Sunday nooning for those who came from\\nfar, with generous luncheon baskets always car-\\nried on the left arm of paterfamilias as he sat in\\nthe saddle, was spent in winter before a fire in\\nthe Sabba-day house, directly back of the\\nmeeting-house, or in summer beneath the\\nprimeval oak standing on the green, whose wide\\nbranches could shelter threescore or more, or\\nwandering in the churchyard among graves old\\nand new.\\nTo Thaddeus and his small family the Sunday\\njourney was ever welcome, for the assured meet-\\ning of brothers and their wives, whose homes\\nlay eight or ten rough miles apart, was a joyful\\nanticipation. And the widow Elizabeth in her\\nold age could sometimes see from her place in\\nthe square pew every one of the dear sons with\\ntheir good wives, Joseph and Mary his wife,\\nDaniel and Mary his wife, Thaddeus and Esther,\\nSamuel and Abigail, James and Anna, while by\\nher side were Josiah, her youngest born, and\\nEunice his wife, with their little Charity.\\n51", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nThe service over, there were happy greetings\\nand much interchange of news of each other s\\nwelfare, counsel to be asked of the wiser\\nmothers, and tidings of far-off friends and kin-\\ndred, and often in the long summer days Thad-\\ndeus, with Esther behind him and little Daniel\\nastride a small pillow laid in front of the saddle,\\nmade a happy trio to join the family dinner at\\none of the other houses, ere they took the longer\\nroad home before the twilight.\\n52", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "VIII\\nWHEN THE HEIR CAME OF AGE.\\nIn 1756 young Daniel came of age, a very tall\\nand very slim youth, with the dark hair and gray\\neyes of his race showing from under the beaver\\nhat which was the badge of manhood. For that\\nday he was well educated, his mother s teaching\\nbeing supplemented by the instruction of the\\nwinter terms at the district school during several\\nyears, and he had struggled alone during long\\nwinter evenings with Ward s The Young\\nMathematician s Guide, in 5 Parts, Arithmetick\\nVulgar and Decimal with all the useful Rules,\\nand a General Method of Extracting the Roots\\nof all Single Powers. Algebra or Arithmetick\\nin Species; wherein the Method of Raising and\\nResolving ^Equations is rendered Easy. Also\\nthe Business of Interest and Annuities per-\\nformed by the Pen. The Elements of Geome-\\n53", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ntry Contracted and Analytically Demonstrated;\\nConick Sections. The Arithmetick of Affinities\\nExplained and rendered easy. With an appen-\\ndix of Practical Guaging.\\nHe delighted also in Martin s Grammar of\\nPhilosophy that taught in Rollo-book fashion,\\nby dialogue, The Present State of Experi-\\nmental Physiology or Natural Philosophy in 4\\nParts. Somatology, Cosmology, Aerology, and\\nGeology/ the book being well illustrated, its\\nsubjects covering the animal kingdom, the celes-\\ntial bodies, the muscular processes, the diatonic\\nscale, and others, with touches like the follow-\\ning:\\nPray, Sir, what do you mean by Electric-\\nity?\\nA certain kind of attractive Faculty peculiar\\nto some Bodies, as Amber, Jet, Sealing Wax,\\nGlass, etc., whose Particles are such that being\\ngreatly rarified and agitated (by the Heat oc-\\ncasioned by attrition or Rubbing of them) they\\nfly off to a certain small Distance, but not be-\\nyond the Sphere of the Body s Attraction; and\\ntherefore by this Attraction they are obliged to\\nreturn again to their old Quarters. A note ex-\\n54", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "WHEN THE HEIR CAME OF AGE\\nplains further that Electricity consists of fine\\ninvisible Effluvia supposed to be of an unctuous\\nor oily Nature, which are excited by Attrition,\\nand experiments with a glass-tube are given,\\nexplaining also that Tersion or Wiping is also\\nnecessary as well as Attrition to procure Elec-\\ntricity; for this frees the Pores for the better\\nemission of the Effluvia. If the Fingers be\\nmoved nimbly near the Tube, as if you meant\\nto strike it in a direction perpendicular to its\\naxis, the Effluvia will be heard to snap against\\nthe Fingers, or against the Tube, like the Crack-\\nling of a green Leaf in the Fire, but not so loud.\\nFor the laws of speech, that period, as did\\nnearly all the century, showed much indif-\\nference, and had not the great Lord Bacon said\\nthat English was an unfit vehicle to bear a\\nscholar s work to posterity? Spelling was\\nphonetic, for which each man might formulate\\nhis own system or systems as spelling Indian,\\nInjun, to-day, was no reason why it might\\nnot be Ingen or even Ingon to-morrow.\\nCichon served sometimes for kitcJien, A Par\\nof Soels for his Shouse was readily understood,\\nand even proper names were subject to varia-\\n55", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ntions. Grammar, never taught in the district-\\nschools until the latter part of the century, suf-\\nfered also from too many standards of usage,\\nand those who would attain the purest ideal\\nwere hampered by the contagion of customs less\\nexact.\\nDaniel was learned also in the practical side\\nof life. He could direct all labor required\\nby the soil and its products, and, if necessary,\\nset his own hand to the work, and he had a\\nkeen sense of the value of what the land pro-\\nduced, proving the recompense of the colonial\\ncommerce. Every large land-holder of the day\\nwas not a mere farmer, but a man of affairs; he\\nwas exporter and importer as well as agricul-\\nturist, and, in a small degree, merchant also.\\nThe owner of wide acres could accommodate a\\nsmaller neighbor with grain for seed, or grind-\\ning, and his slaves might be hired by the day,\\nas might also his five-cattle team (two yokes\\nof oxen and a horse) for drawing timber, or his\\njade (mare) to go to mill. And, taking ad-\\nvantage of the colonists chief pecuniary benefit,\\nthe West India trade, by which alone hard cash\\ncame to the colonies England keeping the bal-\\n56", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "WHEN THE HEIR CAME OF AGE\\nance of trade on her side in the exchange of\\nAmerican products for her own manufactures,\\nand imports from other countries he could af-\\nford to import a hogshead of rum or of molasses,\\nand would he not willingly dispense it to his\\nneighbors by quart or gallon? Trouble never\\nentered into the consideration; and when one\\nman killed a calf, a sheep, or a critter (beef),\\nhe divided the fresh meat with his neighbor, who\\nin turn divided with him. A lone widow must\\nhave her garden ploughed and other heavy work\\ndone by his slaves. For many of these accounts\\nthe daily tally was kept in chalk, on the dark\\nside of the door at the head of the cellar stairs,\\nbut all sooner or later were recorded in the long\\nnarrow account-books, that, having safely floated\\ndown the stream of years, testify in their fashion\\nto much of the daily life. In many instances the\\naccounts were kept in one book, for both parties,\\nthe Dr. and Contra pages facing, where\\nthe blacksmith s account for shoeing horses and\\noxen, for making tires and hinges, puling a\\ntuth (tooth) or up-seting a Ax is set\\nagainst bushels of turnips, of corn or wheat,\\nhours of labor, etc., with an occasional balancing,\\n57", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ngiving resete in full for_all aCompts from\\nthe Beginning of the World to this day, duly\\nsigned by both parties. Sometimes an entry\\nreads Then reckoned with A. B. and bal-\\nlanced all aCompts from the beginning of the\\nWorld to this Day and find there is Due me\\nSeven Shillings and Six Pence as witness our\\nhands or Compared books with Jonas Peck\\nand witness our hands signed by both\\nparties.\\nThaddeus had largely increased his acres,\\nclearing wide tracts, which rendered a return of\\nsure value for export. Civilization held more\\nand more in its hand for the pioneers in this wil-\\nderness. Tea had come into use, and the tiny\\nChina tea-cups were dear to every woman s\\nheart, and Esther had her share of everything\\nfurnished by the stores in Ripton and by those\\nof Derby and New Haven.\\nDaniel, the son of her love and pride, was of\\nage. Marriage was desirable, but there were\\nheart-burnings lest his choice be not to her mind.\\nRank, though unnamed, was none the less a real-\\nity, but even princes had been known to wed\\nunwisely. Thaddeus and she had long before\\n58", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "WHEN THE HEIR CAME OF AGE\\ndecided upon his start in life. Esther herself had\\nchosen the site for the great house that should\\nbe built for this their darling and their only heir.\\nOn the crest of a hill commanding a far outlook\\nnorth, and east, and south, was a wide plateau,\\nflanked east and south by a rocky breastwork.\\nIt was about half a mile from their own home,\\nthe road winding through a grove, despoiled of\\nits heavy timber but shaded with young birches\\nand maples, with oaks and chestnuts, and lead-\\ning past green meadows and well-tilled fields.\\nEsther cast an anxious or an interested glance\\nat this or that maiden to whom her son showed\\nsome courtesy, or whose society he sought.\\nOnce they had made a memorable journey, she\\non pillion behind her tall son, to her dear old\\nhome in Glastonbury, hoping, as in her own case,\\nthat the young man s fancy might see in some\\nfair kinswoman an irresistible charm. But his\\nheart lay deep, and no glance or word stirred it,\\nuntil he neared his twenty-second year. Then,\\ndespite that potent factor in match-making,\\nthe mighty goddess of propinquity, and the\\nfact that novelty charms but custom endears, de-\\nspite the power of adjoining acres in tightening\\n59", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nbonds, it was not a maiden of the hill-country\\nbut one down in Stratford village, a small, fair,\\nseventeen-year-old Mary that held the power.\\nSo he bent himself before her, and sued for the\\nprize; and her hand was placed in his, and her\\nlove and fealty sworn, and the foundations were\\nlaid for the great house, while Mary embroid-\\nered her wedding finery and the elder people\\nheld conclave over the plenishing.\\n60", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "IX\\nTHE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE\\nAmbition s hour had arrived. In the neces-\\nsities of the pioneer, it is first the axe, then the\\nsaw-mill. In 1725, two of Stratford s prominent\\ncitizens received permission from the General\\nCourt at Hartford to erect a saw-mill on the\\nHalf- Way River, which separated the northern\\npart of this far-reaching township from its\\nneighbor, Newtown. This mill was soon supple-\\nmented by another, on the nere sprayne of\\nthe Far-Mill River, which, from its source in a\\nswamp among these upper hills, quickly gained\\npower and volume sufficient to turn a wheel.\\nThe increase of householders brought skilful\\nworkmen to the hill-tops, and the time had come\\nwhen fancy could have play in panel and mould-\\ning, in curves and turnings, for although the\\nreigning fashion made the exterior of even this\\n61", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ngreat house neither graceful nor attractive, in\\nthe interior at least the practical might be sup-\\nplemented by the ornamental.\\nSo, the cellar being dug and foundations laid,\\nthe great chimney, twelve feet square at its base,\\ngrew like an obelisk from those depths, out\\nabove the line of earth, overlooking it, and\\nreaching upward toward the skies.\\nThe timbers for the house had been cut and\\ndressed in the forest. The house was set close\\nto the ground, the foundation-walls reaching\\njust above the greensward, and on them were\\nplaced the foot-square oak-sills, bearing at least\\ntwo centuries of endurance in their fibre. At\\nthe corners square beams stood upright, these\\nbeing held by the line of girths at the next\\nstory, and others again by the plates that\\nmarked the line of the garret-floor, from which\\nthe rafters would reach the ridge-pole. It was\\na plank-house, as were all of that period, the\\nsides being made entirely of wide planks, two\\ninches thick, standing upright side by side.\\nThe raising of a house was a function at\\nwhich all friends and neighbors assisted in\\ntwo senses of the word, for the skill and strength\\n02", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE\\nof many hands were required to raise and set\\nin place the heavy beams and planks, and to\\ndrive the wooden pins home with prompt-\\nness and precision. The upright planks were\\nusually but the length of one story, being fast-\\nened to sill and girth, and a second length to\\ngirth and plate, but this house of houses bore in\\nits giant skeleton some planks that reached from\\nground to ridge-pole, thirty feet at least, and\\nthe muscle of young manhood, white and black,\\nwas put to the test.\\nThere was feasting, with merry-making, cider\\nand winkum and Santa Cruz rum, that passed\\nfrom hand to hand in tankard and pint-pot, with\\nraising-cake and other appropriate viands\\nin limitless supply. And there were women\\nand men, old and young, to tender a hearty\\ngreeting and well-wishing. For it was known\\nthat the land was staked, and the deed would\\nsoon be drawn, and the wedding-day but waited\\nfor the finishing of the work so bravely begun.\\nThe house raised and planked was further fin-\\nished, first by filling all possible cracks between\\nthe planks with mortar and then clapboarded.\\nInside, laths, riven by hand from oak timber,\\n63", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nwere nailed to the planks with hand-made nails.\\nThe chimney grew taller and taller, with well-\\nplanned flues that promised comfort. Shell-lime\\nfor the mortar was brought up the steep road\\nfrom Stratford, and plasterers left white walls.\\nThe joiner placed the fine panelled partitions, the\\nmantel-pieces with fluted pilasters and curving\\nshelves, pretty wooden cornices around all the\\nbest rooms, and flutings in accord on window\\nand door casings. And there were built cup-\\nboards in odd places, around the great chimney,\\nand under the staircases; for, although closets\\nfor hanging up clothing had hardly been\\ndreamed of, in shelves without number behind\\ndoors of glass, or panel, the house was trium-\\nphant.\\nThe barns were built also, opening on the\\nhighway, and reaching out long, sloping roofs\\nto cover a full harvest. The wells were dug,\\none, under cover of the house, an up-and-\\ndown, the rope passing over a large wooden\\nwheel, and bearing one bucket; the other near\\nthe barn, with the long sweep balanced at\\nits earthly end by a large stone.\\nThe plan of the house varied little from most\\n6 4", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE\\nof its style. The front-door faced the south, thus\\nbringing a gable-end to the highway at the west,\\nand it was set back from the road about twenty\\nfeet. The front-door swung on long hinges,\\nand across its top were set five square panes of\\nglass that let in the sunlight on the pretty wind-\\ning staircase. The living-room, one rod\\nsquare, opened on the right from the short hall\\nor entry, and between it and the chimney was\\nthe fine panelled partition reaching over the\\nmantel-piece and across that side of the room.\\nA door led into the long kitchen and another\\ninto the bed-room, the invariable apartment of\\nmaster and mistress.\\nFrom the left of the entry opened the other\\nfront room, the parlor, also one rod square, with\\nplastered walls, fine mouldings and panellings,\\nand with a door opening toward the road; from\\nthe room at the rear of this a similar panelled\\ndoor led outward also.\\nThe long kitchen was always one of the most\\nimportant rooms in the house. The opening\\nof the fireplace was nine feet wide and five feet\\nhigh, its sloping sides leaving room for a four-\\nfoot log at the back, and near their outer edge,\\n65", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\na place for seats, the dejight of the children of\\nthe household.\\nBeyond the bedroom the house reached out\\nan L for the butt ry and pantries; corresponding\\nto it, at the other side of the rear of the house,\\nwas the end kitchen. Between these two the\\nlarge kitchen-door opened, leading over the flat\\ndoorstone to the garden that blossomed be-\\ntween the house and barns.\\nWide and deep and high, the house finally\\nstood complete. The window-panes reflected\\nthe light of the rising and setting sun; hinge and\\nlatch and lock were in place, and a bright red\\npaint, with white for the window-sashes, and all\\nthe outer doors painted green, made it fitting\\nto welcome a bride.\\nA low fence of flat pickets divided the door-\\nyard from the highway; in it two gates opened,\\none showing the way over the grass to the front\\ndoor, the other, leading by a row of stones\\nscarcely a foot wide, so narrow that a maiden s\\ntread would barely escape the morning dew, to\\none of the green doors facing the road.\\nThe deed of gift was duly drawn, signed, and\\nrecorded: Know all men by these presents,\\n66", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE\\nthat I for the consideration of the love and\\naffection I bear my son, a certain tract of\\nland, with the house and buildings thereon\\nbeginning at the highway near my present\\nhouse, at a crotched walnut-tree with a stone\\nlaid in the crotch, running easterly to a\\ngroup of chestnut spires, then south to a\\npepperidge tree, then west to a heap of\\nstones by a poplar pole, then north to the\\ncrotched walnut-tree to him and his heirs\\nforever.\\n67", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "X\\nTHE HOUSEHOLD PLENISHING\\nThe furnishing was, in great measure, the\\npart of the bride s parents, and constituted her\\ndower. It was generous for the times, usually\\namounting with people of the best class to \u00c2\u00a3200,\\nand the record proves that blue-eyed Mary did\\nnot go to the great house empty handed.*\\nStratford furnished a good cabinet-maker, and,\\nalthough fashion changed there less frequently\\nthan in the larger towns, where the influence of\\ncompetition and direct communication with\\nEngland produced more elaborate articles, yet\\nthe well-seasoned wild-cherry, carefully worked,\\nmade furnishings that remain a prize even in\\nmodern life. For London pewter and brass-\\nware, Holland linen, chintz for curtins, and\\ncostly coverlids, as well as Cheaney-Tea-\\nAppendix 297.\\n68", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE HOUSEHOLD PLENISHING\\nDishes, Mary s father sent by the renowned\\nCaptain Stephen Burroughs accomplished\\nmathematician and astronomer as well as navi-\\ngator who sailed with such regularity as wind\\nand wave would permit, from a safe harbor in\\nthe Pequonnock River (now within the city of\\nBridgeport) for Boston, New York and other\\nports, and whose ability in exchanging colonial\\nproducts into money, and investing it with good\\ntaste, was to be trusted. And he must carry\\nalso a certain amount of current coin to be con-\\nverted into spoons and tea-tongs, cream-pot\\nand tankard, by Paul Revere s father, or some\\nother silversmith.\\nCaptain Burroughs had a still more responsi-\\nble position to fill, as materials for the wedding-\\ngarments must come from the great seaport,\\nand his commission was for blue satin damask\\nfor the bride s gown, with slippers in harmony,\\nbelt ribbons, white silk stockings, and long white\\nsilk gloves; and there must be store of velvet\\nand poplin and gauze, of flowered calico from\\nIndia, and russet and drugget and other woolen\\nstuffs, besides lace, and a fan, and such acces-\\nsories. Nor did Thaddeus fail to secure these\\n69", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nimportant services for the bridegroom, whose\\nsuit required imported broadcloth, with buck-\\nram to line the skirts that they might stand out\\nbravely, skeins of silk, and sticks of twist and\\nhair for the button-holes, shalloon for lining,\\nand four dozen silver buttons to shine like stars,\\ngay brocade for a vest, white silk stockings, new\\nknee and shoe buckles, and above all, the wed-\\nding-ring.\\nThe house-linen was largely home-made,\\nlinen always signifying that, while hol-\\nland meant whatever was imported. Home-\\nmade table-cloths were of diaper patterns,\\ntwo widths, a yard wide, sewed together. Hol-\\nland furnished the better ones. Hollow iron\\nand earthen ware were of colonial manufacture,\\nand the local cooper and wood-worker supplied\\nthe necessary pails, tubs, churns, bowls, trays,\\nand trenchers.\\nThere were unwritten laws regarding the\\nfurnishing, for custom, while assigning to the\\ndamsel the supply of beds and bedding, even to\\nthe curtains and valances, decreed to the lord\\nof the manor the duty of procuring the bedsteads\\nthemselves, and Daniel likewise provided the tall\\n70", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE HOUSEHOLD PLENISHING\\nclock that measured the hours from its corner\\nof the living-room; a desk with drawers below\\nthe slanting top, and a well-concealed secret\\ncompartment; a great chair for his own use,\\nand the great Bible with the Book of Com-\\nmon Prayer bound in the front, and a small com-\\nmentary at the back, while between the several\\ndivisions were blank pages to be covered, as\\nyears swept by, with records of births, marriages,\\nand deaths.\\nLike all maidens of the day, Mary had accumu-\\nlated in her linen-chest a store of necessaries,\\nhaving spun the flax and wool, and there was\\nnow added such quantity as completed a proper\\nsetting-out. Her pride had vent also in the\\nfine embroideries that colonial dames and maid-\\nens, like those of all ages, loved. Neck-hand-\\nkerchiefs and ruffles were wrought with marvel-\\nlous stitches, and a long band of fine white linen\\nwas worked with many soft-colored crewels, in a\\ntrailing pattern of vines, flowers, and butterflies,\\nthat would make the petticoat it was to border\\nthe envy of all beholders. And when the stitches\\nwere all set, and the wedding-day arrived, where\\ncould be found a braver bride and bridegroom?\\n71", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nDaniel s claret-colored broadcloth coat, stiff of\\nskirt, deep of cuff, and bright with two long\\nrows of silver buttons, a long vest of green bro-\\ncade, and the richness of velvet breeches; white\\nsilk stockings, large silver buckles on the low\\nshoes, and powdered hair, braided and tied at the\\nneck with a ribbon; while Mary in the blue\\ndamask gown that shaded to match her eyes,\\nbelted by a white ribbon strewn with peacock\\nfeathers woven in gold thread, and a narrower\\nribbon of the same pattern to band her fair locks,\\ngold beads about her white throat, and on her\\npretty feet white silk stockings and high-heeled,\\nsharply-pointed slippers of blue, brocaded with\\npink rosebuds made a bride fit for the sun to\\nshine on.\\nAnd Thaddeus in a blue coat, heavy with the\\ngreat silver buttons of the elder Daniel, did\\nhonor to the occasion, while Esther renewed her\\nyouth, as she took her place among the guests\\nin the bravery of a new silk crape gown, with\\na lace-trimmed lawn kerchief, and the twist of\\nher hair held by a silver hair-peg.\\nWedding festivities were usually prolonged\\nseveral days, that all one s acquaintances might\\n72", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE HOUSEHOLD PLENISHING\\nbe able to offer their good wishes, and the bride\\nalways remained at her own home, even if it\\nwere for months, until the bridegroom s house\\nshould be ready.\\nNo one felt the responsibility of the wedding\\npreparations more than the faithful Jube, and\\nhis own importance was sensibly increased, as it\\nproved to be his wedding-season also. Hav-\\ning observed the weather-signs of love in his\\nmaster, and soon learning which of the young\\ncolored women would be assigned to Mary on\\nher marriage, he began to look upon the dusky\\ndamsel as his rightful property, and made plans\\nfor his own marriage which were heartily\\nseconded by master and mistress. So, on the\\nday when the removal to the hill-top was to be\\nmade there was again a flurry of wedding-\\nbreezes, and, standing in the long kitchen of\\nMary s old home, the vows of Jube and Mandy\\nwere plighted.\\nTo take from the valley, to a height so much\\nnearer the sky, the heavy furniture of the day,\\nwith no better conveyance than the two-wheeled\\nox-cart, required care and skill. Hay and straw\\nsupplied packing, but the roads were rough and\\n73", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nrocky and the pitches steep and crooked. The\\ntransport was, however, finally accomplished,\\nthe great chests of drawers, pieces de resistance\\nindeed, the tall clock, the high-backed chairs, the\\nlinen chests and the various tables were, with\\nmany a Haw! and Gee! at last in place.\\nThe last load was driven by Jube, with his\\nbride perched among the tubs and pails and big\\nbrass kettles. Dorcas, with her own share of\\npride, welcomed them and kissed her daughter-\\nin-law, while Esther watched from the south\\nwindow of the best front room, looking over\\na bunch of the white Star of Bethlehem she\\nhad placed in a shining pewter pint-pot on the\\nwindow-sill, for the first sign of her dear children\\nas they came down the road.\\nThus the household gods were set in order\\nand the fire lighted on the altar of a new hearth-\\nstone, and faith and love poised their wings in\\nbenediction over the new life, the new home and\\nfamily.\\nThe days drifted into weeks, and the coming\\nand going of seasons found the new house a\\ncentre of happiness, of duties, of out-going life\\nand power, and of interior comfort. By the time\\n74", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE HOUSEHOLD PLENISHING\\nthe year had swung around another voice was\\nlifted under the roof, for a young Thaddeus\\nopened his eyes upon them, and parents and\\ngrandparents rejoiced. Then a brother was\\nborn to him, little Benjamin, and Esther s yearn-\\ning heart leaped as she, the mother of but one\\nchild, said A troop cometh! And so it\\nproved, for the years made a brave record, as\\nthese two were followed by Jeremiah, Esther,\\nGershom, William, Isaiah, Gloriana, and Vic-\\ntory.\\nGloriana, born in 1771, received a name of\\nnote, for early in that year, down in Stratford vil-\\nlage, a blacksmith s young daughter, the beauti-\\nful Gloriana Folsom, had been wooed and won\\nby a travelling stranger, Mr. John Stirling, no\\nless a personage than the son of a Scotch baro-\\nnet, on the death of whom, twenty years later,\\nthe son succeeding to the title, Gloriana be-\\ncame the Baroness Stirling.* This marriage\\ncaused a great commotion in the little sea of\\nStratford life, and the baby born on the hill-top\\nwas dowered with the name of the great beauty.\\nThe name of Victory had a meaning even be-\\nOrcutt s History of Old Stratford.\\n75", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nyond Gloriana s, or of those elder ones who bore\\nancestral honors, it being that of a cousin whose\\nbaptism is thus recorded:\\nOn the 8th of September, 1760, Montreal,\\nMackinac, Detroit, and all other places within\\nthe government of Canada were surrendered to\\nhis Britannic Majesty, and the long French\\nwar came to an end. On a Sunday morning\\nsoon after, as an infant was being carried to the\\nmeeting-house at Ripton for baptism, and to re-\\nceive a name that had been borne by one of the\\nelder members of the family, a courier from the\\nback settlements on the Hudson came riding up,\\nwaving a white flag, and shouting Victory!\\nVictory! Victory! For a moment he drew rein\\nat the steps of the meeting-house, while he told\\nthe pastor, the Rev. Jedediah Mills, and the peo-\\nple, the story of the great victory of the Eng-\\nlish. To every one who heard it the tidings\\nseemed as if from death to life.\\nWhen the courier had vanished, to carry the\\nnews to the next town, the congregation gath-\\nered in the meeting-house for worship and\\nthanksgiving, but before these could proceed the\\nchild must be baptized. The aged minister, dip-\\n76", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE HOUSEHOLD PLENISHING\\nping his hand in the water, and placing it on the\\nchild s forehead, forgot apparently the family\\nname it was to bear, and said, Victory, I baptize\\nthee.\\n77", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "XI\\nSUPPLYING THE FAMILY NEEDS\\nIn these days of rapid transit and easy inter-\\ncommunication, it is hard to realize the life lived\\non the upper hills, when intercourse with the\\nworld was obtained only by toiling over rough\\nroads, and waiting for uncertain breezes to fill\\nthe sails of small sloops and schooners, that,\\nfrom river and Sound landings made their way\\nfrom one port to another. This isolation, how-\\never, gave character to the life. Every house\\nwas not only its own. centre, but almost its\\nown circumference. A man s acres must sup-\\nply fuel, food, and clothing, and his increase of\\nrevenue came from the sale of his surplus. The\\ngreat body of the colonists were planters, or\\nagriculturists perforce; the few professional men,\\nmerchants, and seamen left a large residue\\n73", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "SUPPLYING THE FAMILY NEEDS\\nwhose energies England confined to the cultiva-\\ntion of land, and the development of the wilder-\\nness. The needs of a family that imply\\nhandiwork were supplied by a method called\\nwhipping-the-cat, craftsmen of various trades\\ndoing the required work from house to house.\\nEvery well-to-do householder had a shoemaker s\\nbench and tools; the heavier leather was tanned\\nand dressed on his own premises, and he bought,\\nthrough Captain Burroughs or some one else,\\nthe finer grades. So the shoemaker came and\\nmade shoes for all the family, from master to\\nslave; the tailor came and made the clothing, the\\ncooper came to do the necessary hooping\\nand repairs; and the ox-carts, ploughs and other\\nfarm implements were made and mended by\\nthose trained in the work, who, for the time\\nbeing, were members of the family.\\nFlax, grown and dressed through a long pro-\\ncess of rotting, drying, crackling, swingling, and\\nhetcheling, was finally ready for spinning, the\\ntow also, a heavier fibre of the same product,\\nbeing of use for coarse articles. Wool sheared\\nfrom a man s well-washed sheep was carded at\\nhome, until carding-mills were established to\\n79", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nprepare it for the trained hands that spun it.\\nNearly all large houses had a weaving-room, and\\na weaver came to sit before the loom, and turn\\ninto yards of cloth the threads already spun.\\nWoolen cloths were sent to a fulling-mill to be\\nfulled and dressed, but the linen was bleached at\\nhome, being well sprinkled, as it lay on the grass\\nunder the May sun, first with weak lye and then\\nwith water, several times daily.\\nThe accessories of a large house were many.\\nIn addition to the slaves house were the smoke-\\nhouse, where hams and sides of bacon, tongues\\nand long strips of beef would gain sweetness,\\nand be preserved for the winter s use; the long\\nwood-piles and sheds; and the great caboose ket-\\ntle, an immense iron pot set in a stone frame-\\nwork, with place for a fire beneath it, wherein\\ncertain foods for pigs and young cattle were\\nprepared, soap was made, etc. And lye, so im-\\nportant for the yearly bleaching and soap-mak-\\ning, was obtained by placing a barrel, whose\\nbottom was well perforated by auger-holes, on a\\nframework over a tub, the barrel being partly\\nfilled with ashes from the hearth, on which water\\nwas poured to trickle slowly through them.\\n80", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "SUPPLYING THE FAMILY NEEDS\\nEverything was at hand and of use; nothing\\nwas wasted or destroyed. Idleness on the part\\nof master or mistress, child or slave, was not\\ncountenanced; it was disreputable. And this\\nlife, with its limited horizon, its necessities, in-\\nventions and peculiar opportunities, bred a high\\ndegree of individualism, and as extremes meet\\nthe same sort of independence that is a mark\\nof the cosmopolitan, self-consciousness being\\nbred in the atmosphere of small towns, as self-\\nsatisfaction is in small cities.\\nWith this individualism, the principle of live\\nand let live made part of the duty to one s\\nneighbor, but simple and direct as the life was,\\nit was also interdependent. Not, however, the\\ncomplex modern net-work, when, no matter how\\nearnest and straightforward the start, it is sure\\nto be seized, knotted, and turned aside, now by\\nthe thin thread of a social fad, now by the\\nheavier weight of a world-wide power; but each\\nlife was a thread in a cable, and when the call to\\narms came, it was that straightforward purpose,\\nthat sense of individual responsibility, though\\nstanding shoulder to shoulder, each one acting\\nas if he were the whole, that gave the untrained\\n81", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nmilitia a power far beyond that of men who fear\\nto step until they have fitted their feet to their\\nneighbors footsteps.\\n82", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "XII\\nTHE DAILY LIFE\\nIn 1773 the child of a few days old was taken\\non the Sunday following his birth, as all his\\nbrothers and sisters had been, to the church at\\nRipton to be received into the congregation of\\nChrist s flock, and be signed with the sign of\\nthe cross, by the Rev. Christopher Newton,\\nand to be given his cousin s name, Victory. As\\nDaniel presented the child at the altar, on which\\nwas placed a bright pewter basin to serve as a\\nfont, the group of children, from young Thad-\\ndeus, who had reached the mature age of fifteen\\nyears, down to little four-year-old Isaiah, made\\na brave showing, standing in the large family\\npew, hushed and awesome, even more than was\\ntheir wont in the sacred edifice. And the lesson\\nof the service was still further impressed on their\\nyoung hearts, as at the hour of family prayer the\\n83", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nthanksgiving from the office of the morning,\\nWe yield Thee hearty thanks, most merciful\\nFather, that it hath pleased Thee to regenerate\\nthese children with Thy Holy Spirit, and to re-\\nceive them for Thine own children by adoption\\nand grace, and to incorporate tJiem into Thy\\nHoly Church, was added to the customary\\nsupplications.\\nThe service of family worship was held im-\\nmediately after supper. The family being as-\\nsembled in the living-room Daniel in his\\ngreat chair before the fire at one side of the\\ncandle-stand, which stood opposite the centre\\nof the fireplace, and Mary in her Ottoman\\nchair, a lower arm-chair, at the other side of\\nthe small table, with the youngest child in her\\nlap, the others in their seats by the wide chim-\\nney, and the slaves standing in the long kitchen\\nw T ith the communicating door open the master\\nof the house read a chapter from the Bible, and\\nthen, all standing, he read the prayers, or from\\na mind well stored with petitions from the beau-\\ntiful liturgy, made intercession and thanks-\\ngiving befitting the day, and then all, white and\\nblack, repeated in unison the Lord s own prayer.\\n8 4", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE DAILY LIFE\\nAnd often, before the younger children were\\ntucked away in their trundle-beds, they were\\nshown the illustrations in the big Bible, some-\\ntimes calling the little darkies to share the pleas-\\nure, and were told the stories, ever old, ever\\nnew.\\nGrace before meat was said standing, and\\nthose children too large to be held in a mother s\\nlap at table, but not large enough to eat com-\\nfortably from the ordinary chairs, stood during\\nthe meals. The table was set in the living-room,\\nthe large round pewter platters, the quart, two-\\nquart and gallon basins, and the plates, making\\nthe dinner service, and as the pewter was kept\\nshining like silver, the table bore an air of lux-\\nury not always realized now. Pewter pint-pots\\nand smaller mugs and tumblers were the drink-\\ning vessels, salt-cellars were of the same brilliant\\nmetal, and a pepper-pot might be also, or\\npossibly of delft. Porringers with pretty handles\\nserved the little children; spoons of pewter\\nand silver were used. Wooden trenchers had\\ntheir places; forks had come in fashion, as Ben\\nJonson said to the sparing o napkins, al-\\nthough the custom of holding a ham-bone, or a\\n85", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nleg of mutton with a napkin while carving, serv-\\ning the meat from the point of the carver, was\\nnot entirely abandoned. Cider, or beer, brewed\\nat home from malt from a convenient malt-\\nhouse, were the usual beverages, with milk for\\nthe little children. Tea was still a luxury, and\\nfor state occasions, while coffee and chocolate,\\ncommon at the seaports, rarely reached the hill\\ncountry.\\nMeats were boiled, pot-roasted, or baked in\\nthe great oven, and sometimes roasted before\\nthe fire, hanging from a hook on the under-side\\nof the mantel-shelf, a pan being set on the hearth\\nto catch the dripping; for viands requiring a\\nshort baking there was an iron bake-pan\\non long legs, that could be pushed into the fire,\\nand under its cover, which was heaped with\\ncoals, biscuits or a loaf of cake baked quickly.\\nThe skillet, a small iron or brass kettle on long\\nlegs, with a stiff horizontal handle, served for\\nsuch matters as would require a modern sauce-\\npan, its legs permitting it to stand among the\\nburning coals, and by the fire stood a trivet, a\\nthree-legged brass or iron frame about a foot\\nhigh called sometimes out of New England a\\n86", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE DAILY LIFE\\nfootman on which could be placed any-\\nthing it was desired to keep hot.\\nFlat-irons were heated over coals placed in\\nan iron box set on a frame, or the iron itself\\nheld a movable compartment in which coals\\nwere put. A great iron kettle with its supply\\nof hot water, hung ever by a pothook from the\\ncrane.\\nTin-ware was confined to a few pieces; fun-\\nnels, colanders, canisters, and an occasional pan\\nor cover. Milk was kept for short periods in\\nbowls turned from the white bass-wood of the\\nforests, but large earthen milk-pans served a\\nbetter purpose. Butter was largely made in\\nJune, being laid down with a sprinkling of white\\nsugar grated from the sugar-loaf, between the\\nlayers. Cheese was made in the hotter weather,\\nwhen keeping a quantity of milk sweet without\\nice was impossible, artd an ice-house had not\\nbeen imagined. For cheese, as for butter, there\\nwas a never-ending market demand. A fall\\nproduct, in addition to grains, vegetables, and\\nfruits, was cider, of which no less than thirty\\nbarrels must stand in the cellar, a portion also\\nto be converted into cider-brandy, well named,\\n87", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nlocally, winkum as its first noticeable effect\\nis on the eyes; (a barrel of cider making three\\ngallons and the distiller taking one gallon as\\nhis toll Four or six beeves and six or\\neight hogs must be killed, and turned into\\nsmoked beef and tongues, hams, bacon, salt-\\nbeef and salt-pork, souse and sausages. Pota-\\ntoes were still scarce, buckwheat had not yet\\nmuch hold on American soil, but the fields,\\ngardens and orchards offered large variety,\\nand not only the coast towns, but the West\\nIndies also made a sure market for whatever\\ncould be spared of the soil s products or of live-\\nstock, and for this purpose Daniel built a large\\nstorehouse on a very fertile island in the centre\\nof Pine Swamp, from which export might be\\nmade according to season.\\nBroom-corn was practically unknown, and\\ncarpets, except in great houses by the sea-\\nboard, almost as much so. An occasional rug\\nfound place, but the floors were usually liber-\\nally sprinkled with white sea-sand, that on the\\nout-rooms being swept lightly in fanciful pat-\\nterns by brooms made of corn-husks, fine hem-\\nlock twigs, sweet-fern branches, or splintered\\n88", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE DAILY LIFE\\nwhite birch sticks, the making of which is said to\\nhave been learned from the Indian. The sand\\nserved to keep the floors clean, absorbing all\\nsoil from Soels of Shouse, and was frequently\\nswept up, sifted, and used again.\\nThe every-day dress was simple; short gowns\\nand petticoats were of home-made woolens, and\\nstriped or chekard linens, four and four\\n(threads to the check) or linsey-woolsey, two\\nthreads of linen to one of wool, this latter ma-\\nterial making an apron not in danger of burning,\\nwhen, in cooking, one bent over the open fire.\\nThe children s clothing was all of homespun\\nflax or wool, and even the boys caps were\\nmade in the house. Men s shirts were of linen\\nand flannel, and for their outer garments, home-\\nspun cloth fulled at the fulling-mill, and occa-\\nsionally a little imported broadcloth, must be\\nready for the itinerant tailor. The slaves cloth-\\ning must also be provided tow-cloth and the\\nrougher fabrics. Leather breeches served mas-\\nter and man for rough usage, but castor or\\nbeaver, with silver buttons, was finer wear for\\nthe gentleman.\\nFor knitting stockings of woolen or linen\\n89", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nyarns/ for mittens and tippets also, the wheels\\nmust spin steadily, and the threads for weav-\\ning, after being dyed, were made ready for the\\nweaver by the twirling of the quill-wheel, by\\nwhich they were wound on short pieces of\\ngoose-quills, that would fit in the shuttle.\\nThe dyes were largely made from imported\\nwoods and indigo, but the native witch-hazel\\nbark made gray, butternut bark and roots the\\nyellow-brown butternut color, and the blue\\npaper that covered the white sugar-loaves gave\\na fine purple. The clouded yarn was pro-\\nduced by tying rags irregularly about the skeins,\\nbefore putting them in the dye-pot, which pre-\\nvented the dye reaching the white threads thus\\nprotected.\\nAll this varied labor was well superintended\\nby Daniel and Mary, who, while directing it,\\nwere not obliged to put their hands to what was\\nrough or mere routine work. The slaves gave\\na faithful and devoted service children of na-\\nture always, but capable, under wise direction, of\\nbecoming responsible, efficient, and trustworthy.\\nJube, naturally at the head of the colored con-\\ntingent, served and ruled to the satisfaction, of\\n90", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE DAILY LIFE\\nboth classes. His children grew up about him\\nand Mandy, and the little hands early learned\\nhabits of industry and obedience.\\nMandy, having mastered the secrets of New\\nEngland cookery, served from the great fire-\\nplace and from the oven, first the bag pudding\\nof Indian meal, boiled for several hours till it\\ngained a ruddy color; this led the mid-day din-\\nner; then the meats, boiled or baked, spare-rib,\\nturkey, goose, or gosling, young pig or leg of\\nmutton, or the boiled salt-beef, with vegetables,\\nto be followed by pies, always of two kinds, or\\npudding, an Indian pudding with dried apples\\nor suet in it, or batter-pudding thick with any\\nof the berries of the season, served with a sauce\\nmade of milk, butter, and molasses. And who\\ncould make as good apple-dumplings, or fritters,\\nto be eaten with cider and molasses? Pies\\nserved for breakfast were unknown, though gin-\\nger-bread or doughnuts might have a place at\\nthat meal. And sweet apples baked in the\\ndeep oven, being put in after everything else\\nwas cooked, and allowed to remain overnight,\\ngained a rare flavor.\\nThe function in cookery was always that of the\\n91", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ngreat oven. When the house was built, bricks\\nhad not come into use in this part of the Colony,\\nand, like the chimney, the oven was made of\\nstone. Its iron door was about three feet from\\nthe floor, the open space underneath being\\na receptacle for big kettles, or sometimes\\nfor the oven-wood, cut three feet long, which\\nmust be perfectly dry before using. Mandy\\nallowed no one but herself to superintend\\nthe important office of filling the oven with\\nwood, and lighting it by a shovelful of coals\\nfrom the hearth. When the wood had burned\\nthe coals were skilfully taken out with the long-\\nhandled peel and then with a wet broom\\nmade of corn-husks the stones were swept clean.\\nShe put the loaves of bread on the stones, by\\nmeans of a flat wooden shovel, and the children,\\never peeping in anticipatory delight, held their\\nbreath as she brought from the butt ry the pies\\nthat had been waiting behind that closed door,\\nfor Mandy s baking began often before cock-\\ncrow. A steady and skilful hand was needed\\nto place all properly, that each should have the\\nFrench pelle.\\n92", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE DAILY LIFE\\ndesired amount of heat. The pie-plates were of\\nbrown earthen-ware, rounding and somewhat\\nunsteady of base, and to place one full of liquid\\npumpkin far in the hot recess was well-nigh\\nimpossible. A tin dipper had not cheered a\\nhousewife s eye, and though a gourd might be\\nused for dipping water, it could not serve all\\npurposes. This difficulty was met by wooden\\nspoons with handles half a yard long, and a\\nsquarish-shaped bowl holding nearly half a pint,\\nthat, supplemented by Tandy s long reach, could\\nsafely fill to the brim the half-filled pie-plates.\\nNow and again a pan of ginger-bread sent out\\na delicious odor from the oven when the watch-\\nful goddess took observations. Then there were\\ntimes in the fruit seasons when, the other cook-\\ning being finished, with an air of mystery she\\nplaced in the dark oven a stone-pot, well cov-\\nered, holding, as she alone knew, plums, goose-\\nberries, or other fruits and their modicum of loaf\\nsugar, leaving it in place till the following day,\\nand repeating the process after three bakings,\\nfor thus she sometimes made sweetmeats.\\nAfter the bread was baked, the oven was often\\nreheated for the baking of meats, or, if the\\n93", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nnever-lacking cookies and seed-cakes were to\\nhave their turn, or anything requiring a quick\\nheat for a short time, a good handful of pine\\nwood set alight in the middle of the oven would\\nserve both cook and cookies.\\nPots and kettles were distinct, the\\nformer with bulging sides and a cover, the latter\\nalways open and with sloping sides. A great\\nbrass wash-kettle aided the laundry-work; a\\ndish-kettle was hung over the fire immediate-\\nly after a meal, in which the various pieces of\\npewter were placed and left, until, steaming hot,\\nit was swung from the crane, when the pewter\\nwas readily given its silver shining.\\nThe iron frying-pan would seem familiar in\\na modern kitchen, save for the handle two or\\nthree feet long, that bespeaks the open fire;\\nbut the sausage-baker standing upright before\\nthe blazing coals, with savory sausages cooking\\non its bent wires, is a vision passed from the\\neyes of men.\\n94", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "XIII\\nA JOURNEY TO NEW HAVEN\\nThe shore line of speech is as ever-changing\\nas that of continents, and it has been declared\\nthat no man could say with surety how his\\ngrandfather spoke in his youth. For, while the\\nrocky ledges long resist the waves of time, there\\nare sandy beaches that shift perpetually, leaving\\noccasional isolated landmarks, and the winds\\nof custom blowing as they list, work strange\\nfreaks with the lighter matters on different\\nstrands. The broken-spoken Irishman still\\nretains an old value in the combination of the\\nvowel i and that of y with o, saying bye for boy\\nand boy for by; but one hundred and fifty years\\nago, and for long after, not only was point fre-\\nquently pronounced pint, but pint, point. Stars\\nserved for stairs, and stairs for stars, while the\\ncombination ea varied from calling the surname\\n95", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nPearce Parss (it became Puree in Massachu-\\nsetts) to Beard as Baird, giving weight to the\\ninterpretation of Falstaff s If reasons were as\\nplenty as blackberries being then pronounced\\nraisins, and of far more value than modern\\nspeech conveys. Chair became cheer, pears were\\npeers, etc., the was pronounced in could, would,\\nand should, and not until Noah Webster pub-\\nlished his spelling-book were the terminations\\nHon, tial, etc., given for pronunciation in one\\nsyllable.\\nThe district-school, at a turning of roads\\nbefore Thaddeus s house, was, like all built dur-\\ning the reign of open fires, a small one-story\\ncellarless structure with a large chimney in the\\nmiddle of one end, making part of the outside\\nwall, and leaving a deep recess on each side of\\nit in the building. These jogs were parti-\\ntioned off to serve as the boys entry and the\\ngirls entry, where their wrappings were\\nhung. The only outer door led into the boys\\nentry, through which the girls must pass to\\nreach the wooden pegs set apart for their sun-\\nbonnets, hoods, and long red cloaks.\\nThe teacher s desk was directly before the\\n96", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "A JOURNEY TO NEW HAVEN\\ncrackling, blazing fire, the scholars sitting on\\nlong benches in the middle of the room, while\\nagainst the wall a slanting shelf was nailed, be-\\nfore which they stood and learned to write.\\nVery thick, rough slates and large, heavy pencils,\\njust coming into use in the seaport schools,\\nwere yet unknown in the hill-districts. Dil-\\nworth s Spelling-book, printed in Glasgow,\\nserved as the foundation-stone of instruction;\\nthe Bible was, save the New England Primer,\\nthe only reading-book, until Noah Webster pub-\\nlished his book of Selections in 1789. Dil-\\nworth s Arithmetic was the standard. But few\\nof the children owned books, blackboards had\\nnot been thought of, and the teacher went from\\none to another, and set sums for them to\\npuzzle over to find the decimal of 17s. 9d.\\n2 far. There were recitations in concert, of the\\nmultiplication-table, and those of weights and\\nmeasures, and an ear attuned to the old key can\\nhear the swaying voices:\\n4 gills make one pint\\n2 pints quart\\n2 quarts pottle\\n2 pottles gallon\\n97", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\n4 pecks make one bushel\\n2 bushels\\ni\\nt\\nstrike\\n2 strikes\\ncoom\\n2 cooms\\ni\\nquarter\\n4 quarters\\nchaldron\\n5 quarters\\nwey\\n2 weys\\nlast\\n7 lbs. make\\none\\nclove\\n2 cloves\\nt\\nstone\\n2 stones\\ntod\\n6\u00c2\u00a3 tods\\nM\\nwey\\n2 weys\\nf t\\nsack\\n12 sacks\\nt\\nc\\nload\\nand io cowhides were reckoned as one dicker.\\nExercises in rhyme were given:\\nA gentleman a chaise did buy,\\nA horse and harness too;\\nThey cost the sum of threescore pounds,\\nUpon my word, tis true.\\nThe harness came to half the horse,\\nThe horse twice of the chaise,\\nAnd if you find the price of them,\\nTake them and go your ways.\\nThere were also pleasant and diverting ques-\\ntions; such as the old riddle As I was going\\nto St. Ives.\\nThe teacher practised also one of the minor\\narts, making with his pen-knife, pens from the\\nconvenient goose-quill, for the row of children\\nwho tried his patience with the continual de-\\n9 8", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "A JOURNEY TO NEW HAVEN\\nmand, Please mend my pen, as they stood\\nat the long desk, toiling from pot-hooks to the\\nelaborate capitals in which they delighted. Ink\\nwas made from ink-powders or sticks dissolved\\nin vinegar, or more primitively from soot and\\nvinegar. The ink-bottles were of leather, and\\nthe writing-books made of large sheets of paper\\nstitched together.\\nThe winter term lasted from October to April,\\nit was especially the boys term, and a man was\\nemployed as teacher; but in the summer term a\\nwoman reigned, it being intended for girls and\\nsmaller boys, all of whom learned to make patch-\\nwork, knit, and work samplers. On Saturday\\nschool was kept but half a day, the afternoon\\nbeing set apart for preparation for the Sab-\\nbath, and the morning lessons included the\\nShorter Catechism and the Catechism from the\\nPrayer-book, according to the theology of the\\npupils.\\nAn obeisance to the teacher was always made\\non leaving school, and recess sent out, as ever, a\\nlot of boys and girls eager for the games dear\\nto young hearts; and when the snow lay deep\\nenough the home-made sleds went flying down\\n99\\nLore.", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nthe slopes, a girl in front well wrapped in her\\nbright red cloak, with a cavalier steersman be-\\nhind her. Twelve Men Morris, an old game\\nplayed with men on a marked board, was\\noften laid out on the snow, the active boys\\nmoving themselves.\\nManners were strictly insisted on, and a\\npassing stranger received a salutation by a\\ncurtsey from every child in petticoats, while\\nthe boys stood respectfully, cap in hand.\\nIn this little school-house the nine children of\\nDaniel and Mary received their education. The\\ncurriculum was very limited, as grammar and\\ngeography were not taught until near the end of\\nthe century, and Mrs. John Adams certifies\\nthat at this period, female education in the\\nbest families in Boston goes no farther than\\nwriting and arithmetic, except in some in-\\nstances music and dancing. It is fashionable to\\nridicule female learning. But in spite of this\\nfar-reaching sentiment the desire for education\\nwas strong, and both girls and boys made the\\nmost of their opportunities. The young colored\\nchildren were also sent to school, as by law they\\nmust, at least, be taught to read.\\n100", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "A JOURNEY TO NEW HAVEN\\nBoarding-schools were unknown, and youth\\nwere prepared for college by the local or other\\nclerics. Following a custom obtaining among\\nthe agriculturists who had several sons, Thad-\\ndeus, the eldest son, was to inherit his grand-\\nfather s house, and the second son, by virtue of\\nthe order of his birth, was brought up to col-\\nlege. So Benjamin, when twelve years old,\\nwas in a state of suppressed excitement one\\nmorning, over his anticipated first journey to\\nNew Haven; not only must the Latin grammar\\nbe purchased, but even an outside knowledge of\\nthe college buildings would lend, it was thought,\\na power in fixing his purpose. The distance\\nwas only about fifteen miles, but the road lying\\nacross the Housatonic, through another town\\nand county, was out of the usual line of travel\\nfor the younger members, whose interest centred\\nin Ripton and its dependencies and the mater-\\nnal ties in old Stratford. On this bright morn-\\ning in early May the whole household rose\\nvery early to see the start. Daniel in a blue\\ncamlet coat and lappet vest, his shirt ruffles\\nwell crimped, and the ends of his tied neckcloth\\nflowing, claret-colored breeches, mixed gray\\nIOI", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nstockings, and low shoes, a knapt hat (beaver\\nwith long fur), with Benjamin in a new butter-\\nnut-colored suit, waited as Jube led the mare\\nfrom the big barn, a well-quilted blanket-pad\\nbeing fastened to the back of the saddle. The\\nsaddle-bags, collapsed now, but to show large\\nproportions later, were thrown over the saddle,\\nand Daniel mounted with the boy behind him\\nastride the pad, his blue-stockinged legs hug-\\nging the mare, and a strap fastened across the\\nback of the saddle serving for support if needed.\\nThe farewells were said amid repeated cautions\\nlest this or that errand be forgotten, and the\\nstart was made ere the sun, climbing toward the\\ntop of the horizon hills, had sent a ray into the\\nvalleys.\\nThe road lay up and down over the hill-crests,\\nuntil it reached the winding descent following\\nLeavenworth s brook down the forest-covered\\nsteep, now half lighted by the rising sun. The\\nquiet early hours were broken only by the twit-\\nter of birds and the rush of the full spring waters.\\nThe river was reached where the fine old Leav-\\nenworth houses and a half-dozen others stood\\non the level plain under the protecting hills.\\n1 02", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "A JOURNEY TO NEW HAVEN\\nLeavenworth s ship-yard was near, and the\\nbridge built by those enterprising men was, dur-\\ning a long period of years, the only one for miles\\nacross the Great River. It was too early for\\nmany greetings, but a rush of pleasure filled the\\nboy s heart as he heard the mare s hoofs strike\\nthe boards, and saw the full, swiftly flowing\\nstream passing below. The crossing showed\\nthe opposite bank in the beauty of spring, with\\nthe glowing tints of the young leaves of maples,\\noaks, and birches, and the dog-woods level lay-\\ners of blossoms thrust between them. The toll\\npaid, they followed a winding up-hill road, and\\nas they came to Squire Tomlinson s corner at\\nDerby Neck, Daniel reined in for a moment with\\nthe words, There s Patience, Ben, and on the\\nclear, early air came a girl s sweet voice singing\\nthe first verse of Baxter s hymn:\\nLord, it belongs not to my care\\nWhether I die or live;\\nTo love and serve Thee is my share,\\nAnd this Thy grace must give.\\nIf life be long, I will be glad\\nThat I may long obey;\\nIf short, yet why should I be sad\\nTo soar to endless day?\\n103", "height": "3380", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nTo hear this was one of Benjamin s great\\nhopes, as it was known that Patience Moss had\\na way of her own for timing her cooking. Lack-\\ning a clock, as did many another, the varying\\ntastes of her household in the cooking of eggs\\nhad been difficult to meet until she solved the\\nproblem by her hymn-book. So on a clear spring\\nor summer morning, when the doors and win-\\ndows were open, all the neighboring dames and\\ndamsels busy over their own breakfast prepara-\\ntions, would hear borne on the still air the maid-\\nen s voice, lifted for the first line of the hymn,\\nand they with one accord would say, There go\\nFather s and Bill s eggs; and the verse being\\nfinished, there came an instant s pause in the\\nsinging which the appreciative listeners would\\nfill with, There go Jemima s and Sally s eggs;\\nand then the second verse would come ringing\\nacross the street, or stealing over the meadow.\\nAt its ending the neighbors would again take\\nup the refrain, There go the old woman s and\\nIke s eggs; and then the voice would rise again,\\nand finish the hymn of six verses.\\nDaniel guided the mare slowly down the hill\\nand across the brook, the maid s voice growing\\n104", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "A JOURNEY TO NEW HAVEN\\nclearer and clearer as they neared the Moss\\nhomestead, and, through the open door of the\\nend kitchen, the boy had a glimpse of the slen-\\nder minstrel. It seemed a good omen for his\\nwhole day. And then the way led on, twisting\\nbetween the hills, past the fine Yale mansion and\\nothers large and small, till it again descended\\nto a river s brink and the rushing Naugatuck\\nwas crossed, now in the broad sunlight, and\\nfollowing the curving street at Up-town Derby,\\nthe long hills must be climbed, down which in\\na few years a French army would wend its way,\\nserving in the cause of freedom.\\nEmerson s declaration Nature has no re-\\nspect for haste is verified by the various races\\nof men who live close to the great mother and\\nare in sympathy with her. It is the result of\\nman s invention and handiwork that life is filled\\nwith hurry and impatience; but the old journey-\\nings, always considerate of the beast of burden,\\nthe only motive power, and trained to grasp\\nevery phase of earth and air and sky, gained such\\npleasure from the ever-changing course, that\\neven an eager anticipation chafed not at the\\nslow progress. The road led on up and down\\n105", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nhills, and when, nearing New Haven, the father\\nshowed the boy West Rock s outline, and told\\nagain the story of the Judge s Cave, nothing less\\nthan the important work on hand could have\\nsatisfied the young legs to keep their place\\nastride the mare, rather than to be climbing the\\nrocky precipice for personal investigation.\\nBut the town of New Haven, with its green,\\nits college, its churches and shops, had been too\\nlong a dream of the imagination to make any-\\nthing else of great importance, and the easy\\npacing through the streets, replete with town-\\nlife, made his heart beat fast, as, sitting behind\\nhis tall father, it seemed to the boy like an end-\\nless Centre.\\nThe important work, though dinner at a tav-\\nern was not unworthy to be counted, was to see\\nthe college, to make the well-planned pur-\\nchases, and to seek certain kindred in their\\nhomes and business haunts. The young legs\\nwere as tireless as the father s long ones, and\\nan open mind is a wide receptacle. The\\nchurches on the green, and the long South Mid-\\ndle and other college buildings, filled him with\\nawe, not wearing away when, seeking a young\\n1 06", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "A JOURNEY TO NEW HAVEN\\nkinsman among the students, the stripling was\\nled through the buildings, until, in the friend s\\nown apartments, the ordinary necessaries of life\\ngave him a sense of being at home.\\nBenedict Arnold s store was the next goal,\\nand the hanging sign decorated with pestle and\\nmortar (now in the rooms of the New Haven\\nColony Historical Society) was readily found. A\\nhandbill, 5 by 16 inches, issued by this enterpris-\\ning chemist and merchant, had found its way to\\nUpper White Hills, and, being eagerly conned,\\nhad naturally suggested purchases. For, in addi-\\ntion to A very large assortment of Drugs and\\nChymical Preparations, it mentioned God-\\nfrey s Cordial, Daffy s Elixir, Eau de Luce Pills,\\nEssence Drops, Rose-Water, Cold Cream, La-\\ndies Court Plaister, Spaw and pirmont waters,\\nPaper Hangings for rooms. A long list of\\nbooks, among which were Hilary on the\\nSmall-Pox, Sherlock on Providence, Gay s\\nFables, Hervey s Meditations, Paradise\\nLost, Dryden and other standard poets and\\nessayists, Every Man his own Lawyer,\\nThe Polite Lady, A large collection of\\nNovels and Plays, TEA, Rum, Sugar, Fine\\n107", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nDurham Flour, Mustard, Painters Colors, A\\nvery few neat watches, Buttons and buckles,\\nMezzotint Pictures and Many other articles very\\ncheap for cash and short credit.\\nThe Latin Grammar being- secured and the\\nvarious purchases paid for in colonial paper\\nmoney from Daniel s morocco pocket-book and\\nin jingling coin from his breeches pocket, there\\nwere houses to enter that seemed full of mystery\\nand grandeur to a boy of Benjamin s limited\\nexperience, and the wharves and shipping made\\nhim wonder if that life with its charm of rope\\nand pulley, of motion and adventure, would not\\nafter all be more enjoyable than the college.\\nBut, home reached again, and the tale of the\\nday unfolded with that deliberation that spins out\\nthe pleasure, there was much expression of pride\\nin the knowledge gained of the college-buildings,\\nas he led the listening brothers and sister\\nthrough them, and already saw himself a student\\nwithin their walls.\\nThe opening of the saddle-bags was a func-\\ntion by itself. Not till after the evening meal\\nand the usual prayers were over, could they be\\nopened. Impatient but obedient fingers would\\n108", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "A JOURNEY TO NEW HAVEN\\nnot touch them; restraint was ever a valuable les-\\nson. But their depths were finally reached and\\nthe various purchases approved. One and six-\\npence worth of fresh cloves (to be steeped in two\\nquarts of boiling water this added to two quarts\\nof rum and sweetened with loaf-sugar made\\nclove-water). One ounce of opium (which put\\nin three gills of rum made laudanum). Twelve\\nyards of India taffety for a gown for the mother\\nand some russet for a new petticoat; The\\nLooking-Glass, short stories with a moral, for\\nlittle Esther; a few oranges were put aside to\\nbe carefully divided and joyfully eaten to-mor-\\nrow, the peel to be saved for bitters and mince-\\npies; the Latin Grammar was wondered over;\\nthe fine blue marking-thread pronounced right,\\nas was also the linen cambric for ruffles and lawn\\nfor kerchiefs. For the grandmother there was\\nDutch lace for a new cap-border, and the elder\\nThaddeus turned with pleasure the leaves of\\nThe History of Religion in England. Daniel\\nhimself had a new copy of the Colonial Laws,\\nand that good book whose authorship yet re-\\nmains unknown, The Whole Duty of Man.\\nTea, usually bought by the quarter of a pound,\\n109", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ncould not be neglected when an opportunity of-\\nfered for procuring a new variety; in fact, the\\ngreat and widely known store of Elisha Mills, in\\nRipton, might supply most of these matters but\\nthere is ever a charm in new ventures.\\nNo one was neglected, for there were bright\\nbuttons for the small boys jackets, and essence\\ndrops to make the eyes of Jube s little flock\\nshine, and withal there was the delightful one-\\nness in pleasure that abides with a united family.\\nno", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "XIV\\nTHE MOTHER S DUTIES\\nIn every age the woman who bears efficiently\\nthe responsibilities of wife and mother, house-\\nkeeper and hostess, needs a keen eye, a sure\\nhand, and a steady heart. Although in those far-\\noff days the whirligig of time did not seem to\\nmove with the present fin de siecle rapidity, yet\\nthe treadle must ever be kept in motion, and all\\nladies, even those of fashion and distinction, di-\\nrected their household affairs.\\nIn a large family there was always a baby to\\nbe cuddled, young children to be guided and\\npetted, while sympathy and counsel were needed\\nby those growing toward man s degree. Thus\\nthe shy Stratford maiden became the responsible\\nmatron, guiding her growing household with\\nlove and wisdom, while her energetic nature,\\nand the habit of the day, left her hands sel-\\niii", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ndom idle. A touch less skilful could not spin\\ntwo threads, one with each hand, while a foot\\nkept the treadle of the flax-wheel moving and a\\nbaby slept on her lap. There was soft wool for\\nendless knitting, fine ruffles and kerchiefs to hem\\nand babies caps and other adornments to em-\\nbroider, and the innumerable stitches to which\\na mother must ever put her hand.\\nMandy proved capable in performing the\\nroutine work, and as numbers increased a young\\nhelper, Moll, was procured, whom she guided\\nwith discretion, as well as the group of little\\nBrownies that grew up about Jube and herself,\\nwho were impressed into service as soon as the\\nyoung hands and feet could be trusted. The\\nstandard of neatness was high pewter must rival\\nsilver in its brilliance, the wooden-ware, of which\\nthere was large store, must be like the driven\\nsnow and an air of purity seemed to fill the\\nhouse, its whitewashed walls cheered by the glow\\nof the great fires and by the sunbeams that\\nfound free entrance through the shutterless win-\\ndows.\\nThe house was, virtually, always open. Never\\nwas a bolt drawn on a door nor a bar placed\\n112", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE MOTHER S DUTIES\\nagainst its welcome. Guests, be they kindred,\\nfriend, or stranger, were sure of a greeting that\\nwarmed the heart and of a courtesy that knew no\\nlimit. Manners were a part of the life of all\\nclasses, but the finer grade, the courtesy that\\nmakes a guest a king, that counts nothing too\\nprecious to offer of self or substance, that veils\\na dislike, and makes all equally at home within\\nthe castle, was the governing power in hospi-\\ntality, and its source reached back through\\ngenerations of gentlefolk, to the high class of\\ngentry, who made a large part of some of the\\ncolonial companies.\\nGuests came at all hours and at all seasons,\\nexpected and unexpected, in the days when pos-\\ntal service was not, and when there was small\\nchance of finding an empty house. The first\\nduty to a guest was to offer refreshment, and\\nthe panelled door of the cupboard by the fire-\\nplace in the living-room opened to show a large\\nassortment, from which choice was made ac-\\ncording to the guest s station. Often as Mary\\nchanced to look out of her window and rec-\\nognized riders emerging from the wooded road,\\nshe would hasten to the front room, where, on\\n3", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nthe shelves behind a glass door, were the foot-\\nglasses and the choice bits of delft that even\\nMandy s hand must not touch. If a lady, or\\nParson Newton, were approaching, the most\\ndelicate viands would be offered, a glass of wine\\nor the king of all the liquors, Santa Cruz rum,\\nand that fruit-cake that Mandy hid in the depths\\nof a stone-pot and whose retreat was known only\\nto herself, must be forthcoming. If the guest\\nwere of less distinction, New England rum was\\nsupposed better to suit his taste, or for a woman\\na glass of home-made cordial, with doughnuts,\\nwould be acceptable; or cider might be offered,\\nand in cold weather flip, which was beer, rum,\\nand sugar made hissing-hot by being stirred with\\nthe hot flip-iron, that, hanging near the kitchen\\nchimney, was always ready to be thrust into the\\ncoals.\\nA guest seen advancing was met at the door\\nwith, You are welcome. The first civilities\\nover and refreshments duly considered, eti-\\nquette asked for a deliverance of his budget,\\nwith, What is the state of health in your vi-\\ncinity?\\nGuests were far from infrequent, from Thad-\\n114", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "THE MOTHER S DUTIES\\ndeus and Esther and the parents in Stratford vil-\\nlage, to the kindred of varying degrees and\\nfriends whose homes lay here and there within\\nthe wide bounds of the old town, and of neigh-\\nboring towns also. A great house with no limit\\nto its heart, where there was no tavern within\\nseveral miles, was sure to be a refuge. So the\\nworld drifted in and out of the door, bringing\\nits tidings from various quarters, and carrying\\naway the cheer that long abides with the re-\\ncipient.\\nWhen Mary first came to her new home,\\nEsther, following the usual etiquette, invited to\\nher own house all the neighboring friends, to\\nintroduce to them her daughter-in-law. For this\\nceremony both maid and mistress stirred them-\\nselves unusually; there was no stint in the dole\\ncf fruit and spice, of cream and butter, of eggs\\nand white sugar, that made the rich brown loaves\\nDorcas drew out of the oven, and there was fine\\nMadeira in a flowered glass bottle, of which\\nchoice guests might sip, with clove-water, cor-\\ndials, and other beverages for varying tastes.\\nThis was an occasion for the wearing of wed-\\nding finery, and the women who came on pillions\\n5", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nhad their gowns carefully pinned up for the ride,\\nto be shaken down over finely-quilted petticoats.\\nLaying aside their velvet or cloth pugs (riding-\\ncloaks with hoods), they showed caps of fine\\nmuslin embroidered with many lace stitches, and\\nthe ruffles lace-edged, kerchiefs of lawn and\\naprons of persian (silk); and the men in coats\\nof blue and green, brown and claret, long waist-\\ncoats of every hue, and breeches of velvet\\nor cloth brightened with silver buttons and\\nbuckles. By inheritance they had the education\\nand civilization their forefathers had brought\\nwith them to a new country; life was full of con-\\nventionalities, and the fabrics of France, the\\nspeech of England, and a ceremonious courtesy\\nwhich was a reflection of that in kings houses,\\nseemed removed far more than a quarter of a\\ncentury from the wilderness and the savage.\\n116", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "XV\\nMAKING NEW FRIENDS\\nMary herself must also entertain the neigh-\\nborhood, and the new friends flitted in and out\\nat her tea-drinkings admiring the little blue-\\neyed woman and her tall husband, whose pride\\nand satisfaction could be read in spite of his\\nquiet demeanor. Tea was a treat, costing several\\ndollars a pound, but it was not used with mod-\\nern lavishness, as, well boiled, a little served a\\nlarge purpose, and the delicate blue and white\\nchina tea-dishes, decorated with Chinese tem-\\nples and landscapes, were of the tiniest. On\\nthese state occasions the best front room was\\nopen, and the guests might almost hesitate to set\\neven a slippered foot on the sanded floor, lest\\nthey mar the pattern so deftly marked on it. The\\nround tea-table would seem small to the modern\\nhostess for the accommodation of her guests,\\n117", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nbut the fashion of that day was, if the guests were\\nmany, to sit about the room, everything being\\npassed to them; if few, they sat near, not at, the\\ntable, near enough to reach it, that plate or cup\\nand saucer might be placed upon it.\\nThe table was laid with the finest table-cloth,\\nholland, of course, and there were napkins for\\nthe ladies to spread on their laps. It was cus-\\ntomary for each guest to bring her own cup and\\nsaucer and tea-spoon; so, although Mary s store\\nwould suffice, part of her treasures might be left\\nbehind the glass door of the cupboard. Tea was\\nserved from the tortoise-shell tea-pot; in a\\nsugar-bowl of the same ware the broken loaf-\\nsugar lay like snow against the dark-red glaze\\nof its lining, and on the sugar the silver tea-\\ntongs were laid with pride, while the little sil-\\nver cream-pot, with Mary s initials in square\\ntypographical letters, was the prize of the table.\\nSweetmeats were in shining pewter basins, and\\nserved on small pewter plates which were almost\\nas brilliant as mirrors.\\nQueen Esther, too, was proud of the young\\nhostess who served her guests so gracefully, and\\nif Mandy dared to listen, when her biscuits and\\n118", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "MAKING NEW FRIENDS\\nfruit-cake, passing from hand to hand on plates\\nfrom far Cathay, were praised, no one could\\nblame her!\\nThe tea-cups were without handles and the\\nspoons, which were very small, served that\\npurpose. A spoon left in the cup and against\\nits edge, made a rest for the forefinger placed\\nin front of it; while the other fingers, back of\\nit, held the cup itself. And there was a strict\\netiquette regarding the spoon; left in the\\nempty cup, it signified that one did not desire\\nthe cup refilled, but laying it in the saucer meant\\nthat more tea would be acceptable. An atten-\\ntive hostess did not need to use her eyes to ascer-\\ntain her guests wishes. The click alone of the\\nspoon on cup or saucer told their pleasure to her\\ndiscriminating ear.\\nThe guests themselves, genteel and agreeable,\\nchatted, admired, and delighted in it all, talking\\nof this and that, of parson and sermon, of house\\nand children, of gossip and fashion, with that\\ngood humor, racy wit, and sprightly manner for\\nwhich the women of New England were re-\\nnowned.\\nMary s nature was very social and she soon\\n119", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nmade friends among these women of the hills,\\nbut there were two distinguished from the first\\nabove all others. Daniel s cousin, the little\\nCharity who used to sit by her grandmother in\\nchurch, having grown tall and buxom, had mar-\\nried a man of valor, and their house on the east-\\nern rise of Spindle-Tree Hill was on the road to\\nRipton. Beach, Charity s husband, though com-\\ning from Stratford village, was already a large\\nland-holder on the hills, and at the time of\\nMary s marriage three children had been taken\\nto the meeting-house for baptism, for Charity,\\nhaving married one of the meeting-folk, must go\\nwith her husband. To Mary this cousin, em-\\nbarked on the sea of matrimony somewhat in ad-\\nvance of herself, proved a wise counsellor, and\\nthere were many pleasant journeys homeward on\\nSundays, the men, Beach and Daniel, in advance,\\nand the women on their own horses, ambling\\nside by side, and talking their woman s talk.\\nBut the new friend that really marked an era\\nin Mary s life was Hepzibah, whose date of mar-\\nriage tallied very nearly with her own. She was\\nof Huguenot descent, her father, born in Strat-\\nford, and marrying there in 1725, had, about\\n120", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "MAKING NEW FRIENDS\\nthe time Thaddeus married, removed from\\nhis pleasant home by the water-side in\\nthe village to one of Stratford s wilderness re-\\ngions, called Moose Hill, where Indians were the\\nnearest neighbors. Hepzibah was only then\\nlearning to take her first little steps, and the\\nhome was so remote that it had never been pos-\\nsible for her to go to school but for one short\\nterm of three months. Her grandmother, how-\\never, taught her at home, and her own keen in-\\nterest, determination, and ability enabled her\\nnot only to gain much knowledge from books,\\nbut also to guide a pen wittingly.\\nMoose Hill became part of another Centre,\\ncalled New Stratford, and within the district s\\nlimits was Barn Hill, on the southern side of\\nwhich was set the home of Hepzibah on her mar-\\nriage. This also was a fine house, not as large\\nas that of Daniel, but built much on the same\\nplan and about two miles distant. Hepzibah was\\na woman of parts, tall, erect, and fair, not in-\\nheriting from her father physically, but proving\\nmentally the French blood. Her great-grand-\\nparents being Walloons, the type was not far\\nto seek. Being also of Puritan stock, and\\n121", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\neducation, the temperament was restrained, dig-\\nnified, and, like most of the women, she had ever\\na living interest in serious matters. But there\\nwas a love of art, and of beauty, an ingenuity and\\ndesire for expression, that marked her as unlike\\nmost of her contemporaries. The possibilities\\nof even a small colonial city were beyond her\\ngrasp, but by her brains and hands she realized\\nsome of her longings. Drawing her own de-\\nsigns and with colors made from various dyes\\nand plants she painted her window-shades,\\nwhich in those days were always of paper. And\\nwith a supply of crewels, she made rugs from the\\ncommon tow-cloth, using it as a canvas: making\\nthe pattern as she worked, flowers and vines\\ngrew under her fingers, and the background\\nwas filled with black stitches. She was fond of\\nher garden, especially a large bed of pinks on\\nwhich the sunshine lay all day, and she had great\\npride in variegating their shades by braiding to-\\ngether the roots of different varieties. Happy\\nwas the child for whom a large handful was\\ngathered, and carefully strung with a thread\\nthrough the long green calyxes to be wound\\ninto a posy.\\n122", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "MAKING NEW FRIENDS\\nTo verse also she set her hand, and a remark-\\nable memory helped her to make the limited\\nnumber of books that came within her reach a\\npart of herself. Her husband, bearing the name\\nof Milton, because of his father s admiration for\\nParadise Lost, was a man of rare physical\\nbeauty, and with such admiration for her supe-\\nrior intellectual power as to be willing to shine\\nwith less brilliance.\\nSo the friendship began which was to last\\nthrough many years and the two young mar-\\nried women, both starting on the new life,\\nfound that in itself a bond, while the attraction\\nof opposites wrought its endless charm.\\n123", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "XVI\\nFIRE AND LIGHT\\nIn the days when friction-matches were an un-\\nknown quantity and those days lasted until\\nabout 1830 a light meant far more than at\\nthe present time. The element of fire, man s\\ngreatest friend, was, during the colder weather,\\nhis greatest fear. A house was never left alone\\nwith a fire burning. Under any circumstances\\nthere would be little to help the subduing of an\\nunruly flame with water only in the depths of a\\nwell or, possibly, a few gallons in a hogshead at\\nthe corner of the house.\\nIn these homes of the past the fires in the\\nkitchen and living-rooms did not go out from\\nthe first cool days of the fall until the summer\\nsun made them largely unnecessary. In winter\\nthere was always an immense back-log, twelve\\nto eighteen inches in diameter, often drawn to\\n124", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "FIRE AND LIGHT\\nthe hearthstone by a horse that Jube drove\\nright into the kitchen. Against this log the\\nsmaller and lighter wood was piled, a green\\nfore-stick keeping guard lest any turn truant.\\nTo light the fires there was kept a supply of\\nswingling-tow, the refuse of the flax-stalk\\nafter the spinable flax and tow had, by varying\\nprocesses, been removed. Being very dry and\\nlight, it was highly inflammable, and when the\\nkindling-wood was in place, the crane was\\npulled forward and a bunch of the tow hung on\\none of the long pothooks. Then Jube took the\\nold king s-arm from its place behind the kitchen\\ndoor, and, kneeling on the hearthstone, put a lit-\\ntle powder in the flash-pan, then, holding it just\\nunder the tow, he snapped the old flint-lock, set-\\nting powder and tow in a blaze. The great log\\nwould last a week; at night the coals and brands\\nwere piled against it, the ashes were carefully\\nbanked, and the burning wood and coals cov-\\nered, leaving only one little breathing-place. In\\nthe morning, raking away the ashes, Mandy\\nfound a glowing bed ready for the day s de-\\nmands.\\nAs the bedroom that opened from the living-\\n125", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nroom was always occupied, and the danger of\\nfire ever on the mind, a rebellious spark could\\ndo little damage ere it would be revealed. Fires\\nin other bedrooms were likewise on the sleepers\\nminds, and when lighted in the front room were\\nnot left until they also could be safely banked.\\nThe sparking-fires, those burning in one of\\nthe outer rooms when a suitor came to plead his\\ncause, or, being successful, to plan for the future,\\nwere the especial charge of the visitor, and he\\nwas not expected to make his farewells until tfie\\ncoals had burned low enough to admit of a safe\\nbanking.\\nTo light a candle or a pipe, a strong arm\\nlifted a burning coal with the long, heavy tongs,\\nand, bringing it toward the face with one hand,\\nblew it into a flame, then the candle held in the\\nother hand was quickly lighted; but a pipe was\\nas often scooped into the edge of the fire,\\nbringing up a layer of red ashes, that, with a puff,\\nset the weed burning. Thin sticks of light wood\\nwere kept in a little cupboard in the chimney,\\nwith which a lady or a child might light a candle,\\nfor paper was far too scarce to burn.\\nEven in warm weather, when fire was needed\\n126", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "FIRE AND LIGHT\\nonly for cooking, the kitchen fires were rarely\\nallowed to go out entirely until the tinder-box\\ncame into general use. The spark caused by\\nstrike of steel on flint was not of itself sufficient\\nto light the usual kindling, but a tinder-box held\\na compartment in which was placed a strip of\\nlinen that had been half burned, bearing the\\nsame relation to its former substance that char-\\ncoal does to wood, and easily ignited by a spark.\\nThe flint being struck and the tinder on fire, a\\nsmall bit of it was pinched off with snuffers or\\nfingers, and the fire was lighted in an instant.\\nClosing the box secured the rest of the tinder for\\nfuture use. Lacking such conveniences, the only\\nway of getting fire was to go for it, and a neigh-\\nbor s might be half a mile or more away. A\\nboy sent on the mission would seize a burning\\nbrand, and by rapid motion keep it aflame even\\nfor a long distance, while the more sedate would\\ncarry a pan or shovel of coals, but with such\\nhaste that a description of a rapid gait was, He\\ngoes as if he were carrying fire.\\nThe light of these early days was, universally,\\nthe tallow-dip or the moulded candles. Candle-\\nsticks were tall, of brass or pewter or iron, often\\n127", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nwith a band around the slender upright part\\nto which a flat hook was attached. This served\\nto hang the candle on a peg if one wished the\\nlight raised or to carry it even with the hands full\\nby hanging it from one finger. When a busy\\nknitter dropped a stitch that she would find\\nagain, or, for any purpose a low light was\\nneeded, the hook would catch on the raised rim\\nof the candlestand, a small four or eight-\\nsided table, on opposite sides of which the heads\\nof the house sat when the family gathered within\\nthe shelter of the tall tow-screen. Settles were\\nnot known in this part of Connecticut, and a\\nscreen about six feet high, in five parts, each\\nthree feet wide, covered with heavy tow-cloth,\\nconfined the heat from the fire, and shielded the\\ngroup within from the draughts that played\\nabout walls and windows in winter.\\nIn the kitchen, Mandy, busy over her family\\nmending or knitting, had an iron lamp hanging\\nfrom a peg in the wall near the fireplace. This\\nwas a shallow, three-sided iron pan about six\\ninches across, with a rim hardly an inch deep.\\nOne side of the rim was so cut that a tongue of\\niron bent upward and partly over the pan, made\\n128", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "FIRE AND LIGHT\\na handle; to this a short chain was attached\\nby which the lamp hung. In this dish lay a\\ntwisted rag on which any kind of melted grease\\nwas poured, and the end of the rag protruding\\nat the point of the dish served for a wick, giving\\na fair light.\\nMandy was a busy mother, for, although ma-\\nterials were supplied her and the boys clothing\\nwas made by the cat-whipping tailor, the patch-\\ning and knitting were endless, and she had some\\nshare in the coarser spinning. Daniel employed\\na weaver by the year, and the shuttle was always\\nflying from one hand to the other, carrying the\\nfine flaxen or woolen thread. From the weaving-\\nroom came forth blankets of white and plaids,\\ncloths and flannels, linen of all grades, linsey-\\nwoolsey and tow-cloths, the winter s spinning to\\nbe woven in the summer and the summer s spin-\\nning in the winter.\\nAs Tube s vouneer brother, Samson, found\\nMoll an irresistible charmer, Thaddeus trans-\\nferred him to Daniel s household. And life grew\\ndelightfully complicated with the varied interests\\nof children of all ages. The boys found unceas-\\ning opportunity for the exercise of ingenuity\\n129", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nand deft handicraft. The Yankee was rapidly\\ngrowing away from the Englishman. Every\\ngeneration set them farther apart, and the\\nmother of invention might well be proud of her\\noffspring.\\nIt was natural to a boy to learn the use\\nof every tool and implement, the how and the\\nwhy of every custom and process, and al-\\nthough there was keen zest over games of ball\\nand of physical prowess, it was keener over the\\nmaking of traps to catch woodchucks or rabbits,\\nand, best of all, the frisky red squirrel, which\\nwas just coming into these forests. Being a\\nstranger and much more playful than his gray\\ncousin, he was eagerly sought, as a rare prize.\\nWoodchucks were hunted by both black and\\nwhite boys with avidity, the darker element lik-\\ning the meat, and both valuing the skin, as, when\\nproperly tanned and dressed, it made the most\\nperfect whip-lash. When it was well stretched\\non a board, an expert boy having a sharp knife\\nwould cut with the cunning of Dido, and from\\nthe tiny hide gain so long a strip that it served\\nfor two or three lashes, each made of four or six\\nstrands, carefully braided, and the cutting was\\n130", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "FIRE AND LIGHT\\nwith such skill that the braided lash swelled\\nproperly toward the middle and tapered at the\\nend with symmetry.\\nThere being no contrary law, game was often\\nsecured by a snare made of braided horse-hair,\\nartfully looped and placed under low bushes a\\ndangerous necklace for unsuspecting quail or\\npartridge. And the boys, being held responsible\\nfor mice in the store-room, made small traps for\\nthem also.\\nSomething to be whittled out was of unfail-\\ning interest. A nice bit of wood was full of pos-\\nsibilities; spoons that stirred the hasty-puddings,\\nnetting-needles for making seines, checkers for\\nthe games played in the long winter evenings,\\nand many other articles, grew under the hands\\nthat held the jack-knife.\\nSamson was a great bee-hunter, and a man\\nwith that kind of a bee in his bonnet is ever alert.\\nHe seemed sometimes to have extra vision, for\\nwhether he was at work at home or a-field, he\\nhad usually a bee-tale to tell, and if many were\\nreceived incredulously, occasionally he proved\\nhis triumph. Although beehives made a part of\\nthe house industry, wild honey was a treat for, be-\\n131", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ning made largely from flowers growing in\\nswamps where there was little sun, it had a dis-\\ntinct flavor. Many a forest tree bore a liquid\\ntreasure in its heart that the ordinary passer\\nnever suspected. The law of custom decreed that\\nwhoever discovered a bee-tree could claim it by\\ncutting his initials on it, and the tree was his,\\neven if he did not cut it down for years. A\\nbee laden with pollen makes a straight line, a\\nbee-line, for home, while the one seeking food\\nflits hither and yon. To discover the bee-tree\\nthe insect must be followed rapidly, not always\\nan easy task, as the path might prove too full\\nof difficulty and the flying guide be lost, even at\\nwhat seemed the critical moment. If Samson s\\ntales might be thought at times too marvellous,\\nwhen his master was convinced that he had\\nfound the tree for sure, then there was fun\\nfor every man and boy allowed to have a part in\\nthe gathering. Often in the deep woods, some-\\ntimes on edge of swamp or meadow, on a neigh-\\nbor s land, or on the master s, far or near mat-\\ntered not, but late in an afternoon, when the\\nbees had gone in for the night, Samson lead-\\ning his cavalcade to the spot, and, showing the\\n132", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "FIRE AND LIGHT\\nrude S he had accomplished with his jack-knife,\\nwould point out the opening his keen eyes had\\ndiscovered. Vigorous strokes laid the tree low\\nand the bees were suffocated by burning a little\\nsulphur at the opening, then skilful work was re-\\nquired to split the hollow trunk and take out the\\nlarge, brittle combs. These, amounting some-\\ntimes to from fifty to one hundred and fifty\\npounds weight, were carried home in wooden\\npails and trays and with due formality presented\\nto the mistress by the delighted workers, all sure\\nof a large portion of honey for supper.\\n133", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "XVII\\nFISHING AND CAMPING\\nFishing, whether in brook or river, charmed\\nboy and man. Jube, having received due per-\\nmission, often invited young Thaddeus and\\nBenjamin to go to Round Hill Brook, and,\\nwith a few whispered words and many expres-\\nsive gestures, directed their casts over a still, dark\\npool, where he made sure a fine trout was rest-\\ning out of the rush of waters, or under the edge\\nof a great rock, w T here another lay in hiding.\\nAt other times in a flat-bottomed boat on the\\nriver, they sought perch and pickerel. And\\nwhen by the watercourses, he had always an eye\\nfor the scouring-rush (Equisetum hiemale)\\ncounting on Mandy s praises for bringing it in\\ngood quantity. This rush carries much silica in\\nits fibre, and served largely in keeping the wood-\\nen-ware white, being superior to everything else\\n134", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "FISHING AND CAMPING\\nfor that purpose. The growth is in single\\nstalks, round and hollow, about one-quarter of\\nan inch in diameter and from one to three feet\\nhigh. This Mandy hung in her kitchen till it\\nwas dry, and then cut in lengths of five or six\\ninches. A dozen of these pieces bunched, and\\ntied near each end, made them easily handled.\\nBefore using, the brush was put in water to ren-\\nder it pliable, and after doing its duty to-day it\\nwas hung up to dry ready for to-morrow.*\\nThe great fishing of the year was in the\\nspring when the shad ran up the river seeking\\ntheir birthplaces. In the early days of the Col-\\nony the fishing rights were the property of\\nthose land-holders whose borders were washed\\nby the river, the Indians having a right near\\ntheir reservation at Corum. As property was\\ndivided by inheritance, the rights were held in\\npartnership, and a man sometimes sold a part or\\nthe whole of his share. The elder Daniel s right\\nhad been at the Old Boar, just above The\\nSow and The Pigs. In this property Thad-\\ndeus had his privilege, and extended it to his\\nson.\\nAppendix 300.\\n135", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nIn the fall each owner in a right at a sta-\\ntion which was simply a place on the river-\\nbank where it was possible or convenient to\\nmanage the seine agreed how much net he\\nwould make during the winter. For this the\\nbest flax was used and twisted into twine\\non the wheel. The boys and the negroes\\nnetted in the evenings; they cast their own\\nlead sinkers, and their ever-ready jack-knives\\nmade floats from pine. When the shad began\\nto run well in the river, the nets being brought\\ntogether in some meadow near the station, were\\njoined and strung with floats and sinkers. As\\nthe fish always swim against the current and lie\\nin groups in quiet eddies waiting for the tide to\\nturn, the seine was set just before the full-tide,\\nand when the waters, obeying the mysterious\\npower, reversed their course, the fish, starting\\neagerly on their upward journey, met another\\nfate, and were soon flopping on the sandy shore.\\nA large haul was of three or four hundred,\\nand, if the moonlight held good, the seine was\\ndrawn several times in one night. Salt shad\\nfor winter use were as much, if not more de-\\nsired, than those for immediate consumption,\\n136", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "FISHING AND CAMPING\\nand when the nights for drawing seine were\\nmade known, people came, often from long\\ndistances, bringing both barrels and salt to the\\nriver s brink; and the fish but a few moments\\nsince swimming in the moonlit waters were\\ndressed, washed in the shallow pools near the\\nshore, salted and packed away, to serve as a\\nprized relish through the coming year. There\\nwere also buyers of fish who would sell them\\nfrom house to house to-morrow, taking pay in\\nsalt-pork, with the reckoning of two pounds of\\nfish for one pound of pork.\\nBy common consent the river was free to the\\nfish on Saturdays and Sundays a custom no\\none would presume to transgress. The cus-\\ntoms regulating the fishing were far more\\nstrictly observed than are the present laws that\\ngrew out of them.\\nIn lives unstirred by great matters, these di-\\nversions were hailed with a delightful excite-\\nment. Still another in the same line was the\\nannual camping out on Stratford beach at Point-\\nno-Point, to rake oysters, to dig clams, to catch\\nstriped bass, white perch, and yellow-fin. Jube\\nand Samson made an early start one morning\\n137", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nin command of two ox-carts well laden with vari-\\nous farm products, and a little live freight in\\nthe form of small boys, while Daniel himself\\nfollowed later in the saddle, with little Esther\\nbehind him on a pillion and two of the larger\\nboys on another horse. The first destination was\\nCaptain Burroughs s wharf on the Pequonnock,\\nwhich the oxen, leaving so long in advance,\\nreached as soon as the master. Thereupon there\\nwas a confab over various matters, a record of\\ngoods received and a list of purchases to be made\\nin Boston, both duly put away in the captain s\\nbig pocket-book. Cousin Charity had recently\\nachieved the glory of a large delft platter,\\nround, as were all the old platters, the blue and\\nwhite pattern of which had been dancing before\\nMary s eyes ever since she saw it. A like treas-\\nure must be hers also, for, although even in Eng-\\nland pewter still made the usual dinner-service,\\nthere was a creeping in of bits of delft\\nChinese-ware largely and of the early English\\ndishes for use on the dinner-table, the tea-\\ndishes having already found their place for the\\nlighter meal.\\nThere were also commissions for various\\n138", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "FISHING AND CAMPING\\nhousehold necessaries and personal adornments,\\nall of which Captain Burroughs carefully tran-\\nscribed in his account-book, which remains unto\\nthis day.\\nAs soon as the ox-carts were unloaded they\\nwere started again in advance, while the riders,\\nafter adjusting details of prices and possibili-\\nties of date for the return voyage, finally took\\ntheir way also along the old King s Highway, and\\nthe children rejoiced as they neared the toll-gate\\nto hear the clattering hoofs and the strident cry\\nof the post-rider, Andrew Hurd, Open the\\ngates for the King s Post!\\nOver Old Mill Hill they went, past the long,\\nnarrow, elm-bordered green where the vision\\nreaches over the blue waters of the Sound to the\\ngreen fields and trees of Long Island, and on\\ndown into Stratford village; past Benjamin s\\ntavern, where Washington and Lafayette were to\\nmeet a few years hence, and down the long street\\nto the Lordship meadow and Point-no-Point\\nthat deceptive outline of land which from the\\nwater seems a protruding point, but which in\\nreality curves but little.\\nA flat-bottomed fishing-boat about twenty\\n139", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nfeet long was hired, which, tilted on its side, and\\nwell banked with sand, would make a shelter for\\nthe nights. Great bunches of dry sea-weed\\nserved for beds and pillows. The careful mother\\nand faithful Mandy had provided ample store\\nof coverlids and food, and Daniel knowing that\\nthe men were to be trusted with the three white\\nboys, who, with Jube s little ones, were already\\nprospecting for clams, he left them, first to ar-\\nrange with the owner of a salt meadow for a\\njag of salt hay, then to carry little Esther to\\nher kindred, while he sought other friends and\\naffairs.\\nThe days went all too fast* with the clam-dig-\\ngers and fishermen, and the night s sound sleep\\nwas well earned. Swimming in the warm salt-\\nwater, fishing from the boat, wading in the\\ncreek s mouth with bare feet, to feel the\\noysters that were to be raked up, exploring\\nat low tide the round holes on the sand-bars that\\nbetrayed the clam s refuge, and cooking and\\neating in the open, was living out a story-book\\nalmost before such story-books were written.\\nMeantime little Esther in a gown of double-\\nplaid sat in a low, straight-backed chair, knitting\\n140", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "FISHING AND CAMPING\\na long garter, enjoying seed-cake and other\\ndainties, that bear a distinct flavor in a house\\nother than home. She skipped joyfully along the\\ngarden paths among flowers strange and familiar,\\nrunning out occasionally through the white gate\\nto the corner, where, between the tops of the\\nbeautiful elm trees, she could see the brass\\nweathercock which was pierced by British shot a\\nfew years later, and still turns this way and that\\non the church steeple. The dear grandmother\\nknew how to prevent any feeling of loneli-\\nness as twilight neared, and there was an extra\\nserving of jam, after the bread and milk in the\\npewter porringer had disappeared. There were\\nkittens to feed and cuddle and one to be chosen\\nfor Esther to take home, in a loose bag to be\\ncarried on her lap.\\nWhen the time came for the reluctant home-\\nward journey and the hill-top was regained, an\\nunfolding of budgets, mental and material, fol-\\nlowed, Jube bringing his mistress a bunch of\\nunicorn-root, one of the remedies provided\\nagainst the colds and coughs that cold weather\\nmight develop.\\nDoctors were at a distance and every wise\\n141", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nmother had a stock of simples which she used\\nwith discretion and ability. Tansy was not exactly\\na cure-all, but so potent that in the spring, when\\nthe leaves were small and tender, it was served\\nin tansy pancakes, which the children did not\\naltogether dislike. A few leaves in a bottle of\\nrum made tansy-bitters, the first remedy for\\nany sensation of cold or goneness, and the\\nlong list of herbs, dock, pennyroyal, boneset,\\nhorehound, catnip, sage and wormwood, were\\nas much a part of the harvest as the ripened\\ngrain. And when the first warm days of\\nspring marred the crispness of humanity, garlic\\nand rum, a spoonful once a day, was adminis-\\ntered to a line of children, willing or unwilling,\\nand neither white nor black mother failed in\\nthis duty.\\nThe little fingers of the household found\\na perennial pleasure in gathering nuts and\\nberries in their season, and if their games were\\nnot as varied as a kindergarten series, there\\nwere hide-and-seek, blindman s-buff, fox and\\ngeese, and best of all, oats-peas-beans-and-bar-\\nley-grows, when, all the doors being set open,\\nthe children, joining hands, circled the great\\n142", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "FISHING AND CAMPING\\nchimney, coming to a stand-still in the living-\\nroom, for Now you are married you must\\nobey. Tag also gained an extra zest when the\\nchimney s great bulwark was to be dodged,\\nbut even a venturesome child would not dare\\nto take advantage of this freedom of the floor\\nto do injury to any of the furniture. There\\nwas a wholesome restraint as natural as was\\nmovement, that did not cultivate the organ of\\ndestructiveness.\\nDolls were almost as mythical as fairies, but a\\nrag-baby was loved and dressed and caressed\\nwith joy and satisfaction.\\nThe fingers of the negro, like those of the In-\\ndian, were apt in the plaiting of baskets and in the\\ntwisting of rushes for seating the plainer chairs,\\nwhose frames were turned by the hill carpenter.\\nIn the long evenings these articles grew under\\nthe hands of men and boys, the baskets often\\nbeing stained red by a solution of copperas in\\nvinegar. The rushes used were of different\\ngrowths, the cat-tail serving for the heavier\\nwork. Mops were made of corn-husks bound\\nto a handle, the husks having been drawn\\nthrough a hetchel which shredded them, and\\n143", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ndoor-mats of husks^ whole or hetcheled, were\\nbraided with pride and pleasure. The straw\\nhats for common use were made from the whole\\nrye-straw, plaited often by the children, and\\nsewed into form by the women over a block\\ngiving the shape of the crown.\\nOne of a boy s great treasures was a ball made\\nfrom an old stocking leg ravelled, and carefully\\nwound, then covered with soft leather by the\\nmother s skilful fingers. A form of base-ball\\nwas the important game, varied by four-holey-\\ncrack and round-ball, while all feats of skill\\nand daring were welcomed. Fear was not culti-\\nvated. To be brave, to be skilful in whatever\\none set a hand to, to accomplish everything un-\\ndertaken, to surmount difficulty, gave life a per-\\npetual goal. Nothing was more clearly demon-\\nstrated in the later conflict with disciplined armies\\nthan that he that had been faithful in little would\\nbe faithful also in much. That the hour of emer-\\ngency must be the hour of triumph is one of the\\ngreat underlying principles for the success of a\\nventure or a country.\\n144\\ni", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "XVIII\\nFASHIONS\\nFashion moved slowly a century and a half\\nago. Before the French revolution a doll\\ndressed in the latest mode carried the patterns\\nfrom France to Vienna once a year. Fabrics\\nmade by the old methods were enduring, and\\none was not much out of style if he wore his gar-\\nments in the first cut even to shabbiness. Dress,\\nhowever, was important, the first consideration\\nbeing that the material be of fine quality, and\\nthere was ever some tinge of novelty lending a\\ncharm to purchasers. Man s dress, varied by\\nstyle of button, length of cuff and vest, and the\\ndiscarding of buckram lining in the coat skirts,\\nretained its main characteristics through a long\\nperiod. Cocked hats gave place to very tall\\ncrowns with brims drooping and curling, until\\none was evolved whose wide brim was rolled\\n145", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nclose to the crown at the side, dipping like a\\ncanopy at front and back. Low shoes and knee-\\nbreeches, or small clothes, with the glitter of\\nsilver buckles, lasted long. Many a man dying\\nat an old age before 1820 never wore a boot in\\nhis life, even though he did service under arms\\nfor his country. Coats and whole suits were\\nof all colors, black being chiefly for the clergy\\nand for mourning. Vests were of cloth,\\nbrocade, velvet, satin, cassimere, and all woollen\\nmaterials, blue and gray, claret and green, with\\ndeep pocket-flaps and silver or other bright but-\\ntons. The great-coat of blue camlet, with sev-\\neral short capes, long of waist and large of but-\\nton, trousers of leather and leggings of deer-skin,\\nwere a protection against storm, although the\\nmore ordinary legging was simply an extra\\nstocking-leg well tucked in the low shoe. Over-\\nshoes were of very heavy leather, but no higher\\nthan the other shoe, and occasionally made like\\na moccasin, all of one piece. Women also might\\nhave leather overshoes, and sometimes goloshes\\nor pattens a wooden arrangement fastened\\nunder the sole of the shoe, raising it from the\\nground.\\n146", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "FASHIONS\\nQuilted petticoats, over which the upper dress\\nopened, were of silk, satin, or woollen, and were\\nwrought in marvellous patterns of flowers and\\nfruits; of the woollens the favorite was russet,\\na fabric which, whatever the foundation color,\\nbore also an iridescent gloss. Trails were deri-\\nsively called sweep-streets, and, like many of his\\nsex, Daniel objected to them. So when Esther,\\nhis eldest daughter, had attained the dignity of\\nfourteen years, and he bought for her the neces-\\nsary material for a gown of a red and gray serge,\\nit was presented with the caution, Put all you\\nplease in the roundabout, but don t let any of it\\ndown on the ground.\\nBonnets were naturally evolved from hoods.\\nFirst a reed was put in the front edge to prevent\\nits falling over the face, and gradually, near the\\nclose of the last century, bonnets appeared, not\\nyet however of plaited straw, but of silk and\\nother materials made over a foundation bonnet-\\npaper of stiff pasteboard. Hats with crowns\\nand brims made of stiff fabrics covered with vel-\\nvet or satin, had been in use for generations in\\nfashionable life, but beyond the great towns a\\nhood was the universal covering for a woman s\\n147", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nhead. This was often attached to the cloak, a\\ncloak meaning a circular garment without\\nsleeves, which was made of woollen stuff, of\\nvelvet, or of silk crape. When quite short, like\\na modern cape, they were called pugs, and\\nwere of velvet, cloth, or even gauze. Hoods\\nseparate from the cloaks were of various mate-\\nrials, to suit the seasons, and a sun-bonnet of\\nchecked linen or flowered calico did every-day\\nduty in warm weather.\\nWhen a woman rode on a pillion a cloak\\nserved her purpose, but when in the saddle, a\\nlong-waisted coat was more convenient. So\\nthere were coats and waistcoats of the various\\nstuffs, and sometimes a mantee a coat with\\nsleeves, that hung open from the throat, showing\\nthe handsome waist and petticoat. Caps and\\nkerchiefs were universally worn during a long\\nterm of years; fans, pockets (fancy bags to\\nhang from the waist) and aprons of silk or fine\\nlawn were mere adornments; and one or two\\nstrings of gold beads made part of the dress of\\nevery woman who ranked in any of the upper\\nclasses. Gloves were of silk, of wool, and of\\nleather (kid), and mitts were of varying styles\\n148", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "FASHIONS\\nand lengths at different periods. Calico was ex-\\npensive, coming from India, and at times more\\nvalued than silk, because more costly.\\nWigs were rarely worn in the country save by\\nprofessional men, but gentlemen usually wore\\ntheir hair in a cue. And when the fashion\\nprevailed of cutting a boy s hair straight across\\nthe forehead, Daniel s little troop stood in line\\nwaiting their turns, while the mother, tying a\\nlong knitted garter around a little head, deftly\\nsnipped away the locks that came below it.\\n149", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "XIX\\nTHE TORY NON-COMBATANTS\\nA spirit of unrest under injustice was stirring\\nthe various colonies. The Stamp Act, the Bos-\\nton Port Bill, and the Tax on Tea were felt as\\npressure from the hand of tyranny. The lux-\\nury of being free was craved, entreated, and\\nfinally fought for, not without fear on the part\\nof many wise men regarding the outcome for a\\npeople without united government, with neither\\narmy nor treasury. The first revolutionary\\nassembly that convened in Boston promulgated\\nthe principle of the revolution of 1688 Resist-\\nance to unjust laws is obedience to God/ and it\\nbecame a watchword throughout the colonies.\\nThe great body of the people were ready to risk\\nSeward on death of Daniel Webster, United States\\nSenate, December, 1852.\\n150", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE TORY NON-COMBATANTS\\nthe issue. But inheritance is a gathering of many\\nstreams:\\nThou hast inherited thy father s lands\\nAnd all his debts thereon,\\nhis faith, his opinions, his prejudices, as well as\\nhis tastes and temperament. With the first ef-\\nforts in the struggle a large part of the Church-\\nmen felt themselves on the side of the King.\\nHowever great might be their sympathy with the\\ngathering armies, to the elders at least loyalty\\nwas a matter of conscience. The Church was, in\\na measure, under the King s protection and sup-\\nport, and the prayers of the faithful were for his\\nwelfare. Many quickly solved the problem by re-\\nmoval to the Provinces of Nova Scotia and Can-\\nada; some were so outspoken in their allegiance\\nthat they were requested to remove; some boldly\\nfollowed the British army, or secretly aided its\\npurpose. The question was full of difficulty not\\neasily appreciated by later generations, in face of\\nthe result. Many a man who had fought with all\\nhis heart for the King in the colonial wars now\\nfought against him, and many who did not take\\nup arms in the revolution gladly saw their sons\\ndo so in the war of 1812; the transferrence of\\n151", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nallegiance is a slower process with some than\\nwith others.\\nThe impetuous nature is always more militant\\nthan the sedate, and the searcher of genealogies\\nis easily convinced of the influence of heredity.\\nThe professions, public office, the army, the sea,\\nseem often as much a matter of inheritance as\\nbonds and acres, and the soldier born is better\\nthan the soldier made. The first call roused the\\nfighting blood, not only that near the large cen-\\ntres and seaports where tidings came quickly, but\\nalso in the upper districts.\\nConnecticut was not as eager for the war as\\nsome of the other colonies. She believed always\\nin government by the people as distinguished\\nfrom the divine right of kings. Each man had\\nby representation his share of action when the\\nGeneral Court met to agitate the affairs of the\\nCommonwealth. Her charter secured to her\\nspecial privileges, and save during the Andros\\nepisode she had always elected her own govern-\\nor and other officers. She bore, moreover, a\\ndistinctive temper, a spirit of moderation, that\\nowing to her growth under the peculiar liberties\\nof her charter and constitution gave to her chil-\\n152", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE TORY NON-COMBATANTS\\ndren a special character. The conservatism of\\nthe Church of England, which gained her strong-\\nest foothold in New England in this Colony, and\\nat the outbreak of the revolution had twenty\\nclergy and forty churches, was also not without\\ninfluence.\\nThe twelve years from 1763 to 1775 were\\nthose of great prosperity to Connecticut, but al-\\nthough, when the Stamp Act passed Parliament,\\nFranklin wrote home, The sun of liberty is\\nset; you must light up the candles of industry\\nand economy, there were many who would\\nnot accept the situation. As early as 1774\\nthe Sons of Liberty banded, and on village-\\ngreens set up tall poles with Liberty carved\\non them, while the Daughters of Liberty\\nbound themselves to suffer any discomfort or\\nprivation rather than use or wear the product of\\nthe oppressing country.*\\nInjustice in any form was deplored, was men-\\ntally resisted, and the success of the Colonial\\nAgency at the Court of Great Britain was part\\nof the petition enjoined upon the people in the\\nThanksgiving Proclamation, while Touch not,\\nAppendix 301.\\n153", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ntaste not, handle not tea, served as a text for\\nmany a sermon. The desire for greater free-\\ndom was strong, but the sober side of\\nwar with a great power, and the possibilities\\nthat might follow success in arms, even as they\\ndid arise in the critical period, stayed many a\\nvoice and foot in the beginning. To protect a\\nsea-coast from the St. John in New Brunswick\\nalmost to the St. John s in Florida, and a\\nfrontier extending from the tip of Maine, skirting\\nthe great lakes and dipping into the wide river\\nvalleys, was enough to make a wise head shake\\ndoubtingly.\\nStill, many a man s heart longed to go for-\\nward whose feet were bound to the threshold.\\nHe might serve on the Alarm List, training\\nat stated intervals and holding himself ready\\nfor a call that might, and perhaps did, come.\\nBut to supply the army and the families, crops\\nmust be cultivated; the women and children,\\nthe aged and the feeble, could not do all the\\nwork; therefore if six brothers entered the lists,\\nthe seventh remained behind.\\nBesides these martyrs in will, if not in deed,\\nthere were the Tory non-combatants, those who\\n154", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE TORY NON-COMBATANTS\\nneither helped nor hindered the enemy. These,\\nthough in sympathy with the movement for in-\\ndependence in 1776, stayed their hands, deeming\\nallegiance due the King despite unjust rule, but\\nthough praying always that his heart might be\\nmoved to the more reasonable ministering of his\\nsubjects affairs, were unwilling to lift sword\\nagainst him. The Church clergy of Connecticut\\nheld a convention in New Haven, July 23, 1776,\\nand resolved to suspend the services in their\\nchurches, which, with only two or three ex-\\nceptions, was done. Some of the rectors suf-\\nfered unjust accusation and imprisonment, while\\nothers, like Parson Newton, were permitted to\\nabide in peace as long as the church remained\\nclosed, and prayers for the King were not uttered\\nin the name of the people.\\nWhen the war-cry sounded, although Daniel s\\neldest son was a well-grown stripling of seven-\\nteen, and Daniel himself but a little past forty\\nyears of age, they remained deaf to the call, as\\ndid most of their name and kindred, all of whom\\nwere members of the Church of England. The\\nslaves of the household, now numbering in old\\nand young eleven, bound to their master s inter-\\n155", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nest, and following him in religious matters, dared\\nnot, if they would, echo the sentiments or follow\\nthe example of others of their race, to whom\\nevery idea of freedom was alluring. With\\nwar-tidings the land was rife. Principle and\\nsympathy were often at variance in Tory hearts,\\nand almost daily one or another traversed the\\nroads that gave long views of the Sound and\\nsaw the warning beacon-fires ready for lighting.\\nThe Spindle-tree, near the crest of Spindle-\\ntree Hill, was a great chestnut with a trunk\\neighteen feet in circumference and fully one\\nhundred feet high. The lack of lower branches\\nproved that it had grown in the dense forest,\\nbut the white man found it standing alone, in a\\nclearing the Indians had made about it. It was\\nan old Indian rendezvous, and the last Indians\\nof that district lived but a short distance from it.\\nThat it was a resort of the arrow-makers is\\nproved by the quantity of arrow-heads, chips,\\nand unfinished arrows, found in an adjoining\\nfield.*\\nThis tree had served the Indians as a signal-\\nstation in summoning the tribes, and, being\\nAppendix 302.\\n156", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THE TORY NON-COMBATANTS\\nvisible for over twenty miles on the Sound, it\\nwas a landmark for the white man, and was now\\nchosen to bear a message to watchers nearer the\\nshore, if the enemy should be seen advancing\\nover the blue waters. The tree was very\\nstraight, and a long, slender upper limb, having\\nbeen struck by lightning, had fallen and lodged\\nin a fork of the tree, balancing there, and bear-\\ning the appearance of the spindle so familiar to\\nthe spinning community.\\nBeach, the husband of Charity, was already\\nunder a captain s commission in the colonial\\nmilitia, and when the need arose, he and his\\ncompany of men, went from Ripton to the re-\\nlief of New York, having their part in the re-\\ntreat from White Plains, and going into winter\\nquarters on the Hudson, under General Putnam.\\nThey marched also when the cry arose from Dan-\\nbury, and when there was a call for reinforce-\\nments at Peekskill, three of Beach s sons also\\nserving under him, or other redoubtable fighters.\\nHis wife, Charity, true at heart still to the faith\\nof her youth and parentage, and firm in the be-\\nlief of the success of the royal cause, bore\\na troubled spirit, as, eager for the fray, hus-\\n157", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nband and sons left her, while she had to bear\\nthe woman s lot of uncertainty and waiting.\\nBut women s hearts are brave, and with the\\nsame spirit that made another woman cover the\\npain of parting with, Look out, Amos, that\\nyou don t get shot in the back, Charity implored\\nher daring captain to be cautious, or he would\\nbe caught by the conquering British and hung\\non the Spindle-tree yonder.\\nReal warfare, however, came no closer to\\nthese hills than plundering parties along the bor-\\nder of the Sound near Stratford, and Tryon s\\nburning, pillaging expedition.\\nThere were, however, always foraging parties\\nto be feared, and captures of their boats were\\nnot infrequently made by men of coolness and\\ndaring. Records of such adventures were com-\\nmon property, and the committees of safety and\\ninspection in the various towns were always alert\\nlest a Tory in some disguise, or in open avowal,\\nproved aid or pilot. They made search in\\nhouses where sympathy was supposed to be with\\nthe enemy, or where tea might be used. When\\none of the august committee was seen ap-\\nproaching Daniel s house looking for tea there,\\n153", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE TORY NON-COMBATANTS\\nit was Mary herself who met him at the door\\nwith a kettle of boiling water, that, in passing,\\nshe had quickly lifted from, the fire, and said\\nthat no one could enter without receiving the\\nkettle s contents on his head! And lawlessness\\nalone, might serve to knock up at dead of night\\nwith a demand for cider, a man who, if he showed\\na timorous spirit, could be kept on the lower\\nside of his cellar-door while his house was plun-\\ndered.\\nThose who, like Daniel, desired to be merely\\nnon-combatants looked well to their words and\\nways, reading the prayers for the King at family\\nworship, but guarding the tongue outside their\\nown walls, and on being Drafted on a Towar\\nof Duty at Fairfield in the 6th Company of\\nAlarm List, on Refusing to Go has paid a fine of\\nfive pounds Agreeable to an Act of Assembly\\nof this State.\\nThere were excitements of various kinds to\\nrouse interest in people of both parties. The\\nNew London Gazette of April 19, 1776, testifies\\nthat Stratford village was in great tumult,\\nas it states: The following odd affair hap-\\npened at Stratford on the 10th of last month.\\n159", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nA child of Mrs. Edwards, of that town,\\nwas baptized by the Rev. Mr. Learning and\\nnamed Thomas Gage; this alarmed the neigh-\\nborhood, and on the 13th, one hundred and\\nseventy young ladies formed themselves into a\\nBattalion, and with solemn ceremony appointel\\na General and other proper officers to lead them\\non; then the Petticoat Army marched in the\\ngreatest good order to pay their compliments\\nto Thomas Gage and present his mother (the\\nNymphs ought to have deferred this part of the\\nBusiness says our Correspondent) with a suit of\\nTar and Feathers. But Thomas s Sire having\\nIntelligence of their Expedition, Vi et Armis,\\nkept them from entering his house, so that the\\nfemale Soldiers after giving three Huzzas re-\\nturned to their Head Quarters without affecting\\nwhat they intended, and disbanded themselves.\\nCol. Whiting s wife headed them.\\nOf quite another interest was the great wed-\\nding in Fairfield of John Hancock and Dorothy\\nQuincy, and it served for more than a nine days\\nwonder. Boston being still under control of\\nthe British General Gage, it was deemed ex-\\npedient that Miss Dorothy meet her lover in\\n160", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "THE TORY NON-COMBATANTS\\nFairfield and that the wedding take place at the\\nhouse of Mr. Thaddeus Burr. The occasion\\nwas one for fine feathers of all sorts, and the\\nfame thereof reached far back on the hills. Those\\nso fortunate as to be bidden told the tale to\\nthose less so, and the record of costume and\\nhair-dressing, of trains and petticoats, of pearls\\nand powder, of slippers and dancing, was far\\nmore enjoyable than that of siege and fortress,\\nof pain and death.\\n161", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "XX\\nTHE FRENCH ARMY\\nThe years of war dragged on. The French\\nfleet arrived at Newport in the spring of 1781,\\nand as it was desired to reinforce Washington on\\nthe Hudson with part of the troops, while La-\\nfayette himself went with the ships to Virginia,\\na section of the army under the Count Rocham-\\nbeau, the Due de Lauzun and other officers,\\ncrossed Connecticut. De Lauzun, with his legion\\nof six hundred men, cavalry, hussars, grenadiers,\\nand lancers, passed through New Haven June\\n2.7, camped on Sentinel Hill, in Derby, then\\nwound down the steep roads, crossed Nauga-\\ntuck and Housatonic Rivers, and took the wind-\\ning way up the west bank of the latter, finding\\nit necessary at times to improve the road with a\\ndouble corduroy for the passage of the heavy\\nwagons. Finally, the steep ascent being made,\\n162", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THE FRENCH ARMY\\nthe route wound around the upper hills till it\\nreached the Centre of New Stratford, now\\nthe town of Monroe.\\nThe road leading by such toilsome effort up\\nfrom the river reached a level near the foot of\\nDaniel s especial hill, and it was not possible for\\nsuch a company to move unheralded. No man\\nor boy, white or black, could be kept from a close\\ninspection, while the women and girls contented\\nthemselves perforce with a more remote view.\\nWeary as the army was with the ascent, an\\narray of six hundred men with all the splendor of\\ngold lace and nodding plumes, the horses bravely\\ncaparisoned, and the retinue of five-cattle\\nteams that had been hired to convey the heavy\\nbaggage, was a rare sight to those whose\\nknowledge of military display had been limited\\nto the training of one small company of men\\nnot even in uniform, or an occasional trooper\\nas he rode to his camp.\\nThe army wound around the base of Barn\\nHill, and, passing the green at New Stratford\\nafter sunset, camped in a sloping meadow a\\nlittle south of the village. It was in June, in\\nclover-time, and there were spent and hungry\\n163", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nbeasts of burden waiting under the star-lit skies\\nfor their well-earned meal, that would have been\\nsadly insufficient if the patriotic William Scott\\nhad not rallied his neighbors and mowed his\\nhome-lot by the light of the rising moon.\\nThe officers found comfortable quarters at the\\ntavern kept by Hepzibah s brother Nehemiah.\\nTavern-keeping in such places was a most re-\\nspectable business. The taverns were the early\\nmail stations, and when all public transports and\\nservice were lacking mine host must be a man\\nof responsibility often the foremost man of the\\nvillage ready, if need be, to meet emergencies,\\nand to be trusted with affairs pertaining to the\\nState. He must be a man to keep his own coun-\\nsel and able to counsel others, and with oppor-\\ntunities within reach of few for communication\\nwith the powers that be.\\nThe French officers, de Lauzun, who spoke\\nEnglish readily, Dillon, de Hoen, and others,\\nfound interest and pleasure in this life. Com-\\nfortable quarters, a social and stirring host with\\ngood French blood in his veins, a man with\\nnatural ease, genial address and politeness of\\nmanner, of keen insight and discerning mind,\\n164", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "THE FRENCH ARMY\\ncontrasted agreeably with army life. The\\nother gentlemen of the village were ready for\\nall kind and hospitable entertainment, for friend-\\nliness and courtesy, and as the full moon made\\nthe summer evenings alluring, the musicians of\\nthe army called out the gentlemen s daughters,\\nwho, to prove their sympathy with the cause of\\nfreedom, danced with the officers on the green,\\none of them, alas! dancing her heart away.\\nWhile the army lingered a son was born to\\nNehemiah, and named for the commander of the\\nlegion, de Lauzun. When camp was broken\\nand farewells said, one of the officers left his\\nrapier with the squire as a souvenir, the blade\\nof which bears to the present day the inscription\\nof the maker in Paris.\\nThis peaceful side of war held great charm,\\nand every boy, were his sympathies Federal or\\nTory, sought the camp. Daniel s elder sons,\\nsitting their horses with the younger boys be-\\nhind them, hardly knew which side would claim\\ntheir allegiance under the beauty of French uni-\\nforms and the glitter of their accoutrements. It\\nseemed far more like leading to a successful issue\\nthan a company of men in every-day dress sup-\\n165", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nplemented by muskets and canteens. But they\\nhad been so thoroughly educated to respect ex-\\nisting authority, and they were by inheritance\\nso entirely of that strain of loyalty that is long-\\nenduring and slow of change, that withal they\\ncould not believe freedom desirable or at-\\ntainable. So they returned to their life, little\\ntouched by the mighty signs, for when they\\nrecounted the tale of splendor every lingering\\ninfluence was checked by a bidding to go into\\nthe parlor and look at the King!\\nSo that army came and went, leaving one\\nFrench soldier, Louis Luriche, on the hills, and\\nthis man told the story of the Frenchman s use\\nof tobacco. In the early summer the tobacco,\\ncultivated for many years in Connecticut, was\\nin small leaf. The soldiers never having seen it\\ngrowing, marvelled much over its use, and\\nfinally, with true French instinct, concluded it\\nmust be something to put in soup, which they\\ndid forthwith!\\nThe war meant more than strife and blood-\\nshed, defeat or victory, whichever side enlisted\\none s sympathies or however aloof one kept\\nfrom action. There was sorrow in the hearts and\\n166", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "THE FRENCH ARMY\\nhomes whose brave men came not back. There\\nwas a shadow of poverty hovering over many\\nhouseholds, and some of the ordinary necessaries\\nof life were attainable, if to be had at all, only at\\nimmoderate prices. Salt was $27 a bushel, and in\\n1777 John Adams wrote from Philadelphia, all\\nthe old women and young children have gone to\\nthe Jersey shore to make salt. Pepper, spices,\\nand West India products were almost out of the\\nmarket; cornstalks were ground to make molas-\\nses, the West India product rising to $20 a gal-\\nlon. Tea was as high as $90 a pound, butter $12,\\nlinen $20 a yard, and ordinary calico $30 and\\n$40, the exchange of continental or colonial\\nmoney for hard money being from 70 to 75\\nper cent. Even the school-boys were put to an\\nexercise of wits for proper appliances, and as,\\nowing to privateering, writing-paper was very\\nscarce, they worked out their arithmetical prob-\\nlems on birch-bark instead. Pins were not to\\nbe had for love or money, and all imported\\ndress materials were both dear and scarce. In\\nall these matters Federals and Loyalists suffered\\nthe same privation.\\n167", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "XXI\\nTHE UNCERTAIN YEARS\\nThis period of conflict brought other phases\\nof life to Daniel s household. When the winter\\nof 1778 was passing into spring, Queen Esther\\nrealized that her earthly life was drifting away\\nalso, even before its sum of years was quite\\nthreescore and ten. One night, as she and\\nThaddeus sat before the fire, the words that for\\ndays had been hovering about her lips were\\nspoken with that quiet composure with which the\\ntrue-hearted face not only the inevitable, but\\nalso the realization of their faith, and she told\\nhim what he could see only too well, that the\\nhour of separation was near. So she planned his\\nfuture that the younger Thaddeus should has-\\nten his marriage, and bring to the house he was\\nto inherit the young wife, and kinswoman, to\\nwhose filial care she must trust the dear husband,\\n168", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "THE UNCERTAIN YEARS\\nso close already to the burden of eighty years.\\nShe spoke not only of separation but of reunion,\\nof the life that had been, and that would be, and\\nher mind was at rest.\\nMay had barely shed its beauty on the out-\\nside world when the joy of Thaddeus home\\nwas removed, and after three years of loneliness\\nthe great light shone for him also, and his mor-\\ntal body was laid beside hers in the dear church-\\nyard at Ripton, where the gravestones remain\\nto this day. The inscription on that of Thad-\\ndeus records their faith:\\nThe Woman s Seed shall bruise the Serpent s Head\\nAnd Christ shall raise his Servants from the dead.\\nNor was sorrow at this sundering of earthly\\nties the only supreme emotion in the lives of\\nDaniel and Mary and their children. Esther\\ngrown to sweet young maidenhood, a rosy-\\ncheeked and blue-eyed girl, sedate and dig-\\nnified, ere her eighteenth summer dawned had\\ngiven heart and hand to the son of a Newtown\\nsquire and crossed the Half-way River (half way\\nfrom Stratford to Woodbury) to her new home.\\nDespite the high prices caused by the war, her\\nsetting-out was not inferior, having its full com-\\n169", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nplement of silver, china, pewter, linen, furniture,\\nan Irish-stitch (damask) table-cloth, and two\\nslaves, Jack and Peg.\\nOn October 19, 1781, down in Virginia, a\\nthrilling moment came. Between the lines\\nof the French army, with Rochambeau at its\\nhead, and the American army led by Washing-\\nton, marched a line of red-coated officers, the\\nforemost, Major O Hara, bearing the sword of\\nCornwallis, while the British drums beat the air\\nThe world turned topsy-turvy. To all sym-\\npathizers with the King, it seemed so, and the\\nFederals themselves found victory at arms not\\nthe only success needed. There was long wait-\\ning and much petty warfare ere the Treaty of\\nPeace was signed, followed by the long six years\\nbefore the Constitution wasadopted,duringwhich\\nevery lawless and discontented spirit sought to\\ntake advantage of the unformed government.\\nThe Union, which, from the peril of its birth, had\\npassed through infancy only by sacrifice and self-\\nsurrender on the part of its guardians, now, like a\\ntempestuous boy, seemed ruled by every vagary.\\nFirm hands and wise heads must direct its course,\\nAppendix 302.\\n170", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE UNCERTAIN YEARS\\nand as victory was granted them in the hour of\\nbattle, so wisdom was now in the days of peace.\\nThe history of the world furnishes no parallel to\\nthis condition and its outcome. Even amid\\nall the minor disturbances between 83 and 89\\nschools and colleges multiplied, slavery came\\nvirtually to an end at the North, commerce with\\nChina and other countries began, and, however\\nperplexed were affairs of state, many private en-\\nterprises started on the road to success. This\\ncondition, however, obtained more in the busy\\ncentres than in the rural districts. Agriculture\\nhad suffered some neglect because of the lives\\ngiven to, or lost by, the sword. A smut appeared\\non the wheat, caused by the Hessian fly, an\\ninsect supposed to have been imported with the\\nHessians baggage, and for fifty years after the\\nwar little or no wheat was raised in this part of\\nwestern Connecticut. The slaves were variously\\ntreated. Connecticut s legislature declared all\\nborn after 1784 free at twenty-five years of age.\\nSome masters granted freedom at once to all\\ntheir colored retainers, many of whom, however,\\npreferred remaining where they were sure of\\ncare and comfort, finding their interests too\\n171", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nclosely identified with their masters to desire\\nchange, but some were ever ready to give them-\\nselves to any disturbance. Among the latter was\\nBose, a likely negro of Daniel s, about seven-\\nteen years old, who, under the influence of other\\nrestless spirits, ran away in 1787 to join Shay s\\nrebellion in Massachusetts, finding his way back,\\nhowever, after a brief period, no longer a lad of\\npromise, but with impaired mind, having doubt-\\nless received a severe blow on the head. Bose\\nwas a native African who had come into Daniel s\\nhousehold during the early years of the war. He\\nwas very black, of a forbidding countenance,\\nand had given promise of much capacity, but re-\\nturned from his adventure with a cloud over his\\nnature as well as over his mind. It was evident\\nthat he had been overcome, recovered himself,\\nand again plunged into the fray, as, although\\nafter his return he never spoke unless spoken to,\\nhis reply was always supplemented with fought\\nagin. Every morning he appeared before his\\nmaster for orders, for, being no longer capable of\\ntaking his place with the able-bodied workers, he\\nwas set about lighter matters, and on receiving\\ndirections his reply was invariably, Yis, sir;\\n172", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "THE UNCERTAIN YEARS\\nfought agin, unless he doubled the emphasis\\nwith fought agin; yis, sir; fought agin. The\\nboys of the neighborhood held him in awe, for,\\nalthough he watched them at their games with-\\nout disturbing them, he was never seen to smile;\\nbut they had difficulty in hiding their own\\namusement when, at their request, those more at\\nhome with him would ask a simple question for\\nthe sake of hearing the inevitable fought agin.\\nThere seemed also to arise in him some mem-\\nory of a past in a far-off land, that found expres-\\nsion in certain rites undoubtedly full of meaning\\nto him, devoid of it as they appeared to others.\\nSticks of a certain length, carefully notched, and\\nparticular pieces of string, carried always in his\\npockets, were brought out at every leisure mo-\\nment, and, with a muttering like an incantation,\\nwere handled with the same spirit of devotion a\\nRomanist has for a rosary. With these sticks and\\nstrings he measured everything, and if mischiev-\\nous little boys laid hands on them, he simply pro-\\ncured others as soon as possible, with never a\\nlook or word of blame. His pockets also con-\\ntained bits of salt pork, with which he greased\\nnot only these treasures but his garters and hat-\\n173", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nband. These rites seemed of such importance to\\nhis disordered mind that he was not disturbed in\\nthem, and in all ways was treated by Daniel with\\nthat kind consideration that marks the gentle-\\nman who is both Christian and master.\\nBenjamin, the second son, though brought\\nup to college, had not fulfilled that expectation.\\nThe war was a disturber of many plans; the\\nLatin Grammar did not prove entrancing, for the\\nbright eyes and laughing words of a girl had\\ncast a spell over him that even the associa-\\ntions of Brainerd s Rock could not withstand.\\nDavid Brainerd, of Haddam, the first missionary\\nto the Stockbridge Indians, having been ex-\\npelled from Yale College because of his sym-\\npathy with Whitefield s preaching, had been\\nkindly received by the Rev. Jedediah Mills, who\\nconsidered the treatment unjust, and he was by\\nhim prepared for the ministry. About half a mile\\nfrom Mr. Mills house at the Centre, back from\\nthe highway and under spreading branches, in a\\npeaceful meadow, was a great boulder, which the\\npersecuted student sought so often that the tradi-\\ntion thereof made it a resort for scholars of sev-\\neral generations. But the influence failed when\\n174", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THE UNCERTAIN YEARS\\nBenjamin had so charming a vision ever before\\nhis mind s eye, and he was not sorry when, during\\nthe war the Yale classes being scattered, the\\nfreshmen at Farmington, sophomores and juniors\\nat Glastonbury, and a few seniors under Tutor\\nDwight in New Haven, there seemed no sure-\\nness of outcome, and his line of life passed from\\nbooks to nature, from Latin roots to Mother\\nEarth s harvests.\\n175", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "XXII\\nST. PUMPKIN S DAY AND CHRISTMAS\\nFor the Churchman the result of the war was\\nfraught with consequences almost beyond his\\nhopes. It was with deep joy and thankful-\\nness in the hearts of those who loved her orders\\nand her services that the Rev. Samuel Seabury,\\nduly elected Bishop of Connecticut, set sail to\\nreceive consecration for that holy office. It was\\ngranted, as it proved, not at the hands of the\\nEnglish bishops, who were prohibited by the\\nEnglish ministry from delegating such power to\\none who could not swear allegiance to the King,\\nbut at the hands of the nonjuring bishops, the\\nScotch hierarchy at Aberdeen.\\nSeabury s sympathy had not been with the\\nDeclaration of Independence. In 1775 he had\\nsuffered persecution, arrest, confinement, and\\ndestruction of property, and had finally taken\\nrefuge in New York, acting as chaplain to the\\n176", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "ST. PUMPKIN S DAY AND CHRISTMAS\\nLoyal American (Tory) regiment. At the end of\\nthe war he did not embark for Nova Scotia be-\\nfore Sir Guy Carleton withdrew his forces from\\nNew York, as did many under inducement from\\nthe Crown, but remained, believing that the way\\nwould be opened for the church of his love and\\ndevotion.\\nThe years of struggle had tempered his feeling,\\nand, with strong hope, Seabury left the shores\\nof New England, to be invested by the Right\\nReverend Fathers in God with the power that\\nwould enable his Mother the Church to bear\\nher full measure in forming the lives of many\\nwho were to grow up as rulers and servants in\\nthe new nation. In oneness of purpose much\\nparty feeling had been buried. Philemon Rob-\\nbins of Bradford, who preached openly after the\\nStamp Act in favor of resistance, and condemned\\nthe doctrine of passive obedience and non-re-\\nsistance, as a doctrine held only by the high-\\nflying Churchman, had no longer need for his\\nterms of reproach, and Seabury s own words that\\nhe presumed the Church people had as much\\nreligion as their neighbors, would not now be\\nuttered in the same ironical spirit.\\n177", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nOn Seabury s first visitation as Bishop to the\\nvarious parishes, he confirmed not only the\\nyoung who were sufficiently instructed, but\\nthose of all ages who had been admitted to the\\nHoly Communion, which, in parishes including\\nseveral churches, sometimes numbered a few\\nhundreds. The church at Ripton again opened\\nits doors, and it was with deep gratitude that\\nParson Newton, so long loved and honored,\\ngathered his flock before him, ministering to\\nthem as of old. And he was thankful that in his\\nlatter days he could present to the Bishop his\\nbody of communicants, who were all well-in-\\nstructed Churchmen ready to receive the rite of\\nconfirmation, so far known to them only as an\\ninheritance due but not accorded, save to the\\nfew who had crossed the sea to receive the rite.\\nAgain Christmas and Easter might be kept\\nas a Churchman would, for, despite New Eng-\\nland influence, Christmas was to members of the\\nhistoric church more important than Thanks-\\ngiving. No member of a church household\\nwillingly remained away from the special service\\nwhich, with the Sacrament, gave the day its high-\\nestcharacter. The Christmas-eve service was\\n178", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "ST. PUMPKIN S DAY AND CHRISTMAS\\nof interest to many outside the flock. The dress-\\ning of evergreens and the windows lighted by\\nrows of candles made an attraction irresistible to\\nthe meeting-house children who were allowed to\\nattend this one church service of the year.\\nIf the snow lay deep or the roads were rough,\\nox-carts and sleds served as conveyances. On a\\nbright Christmas morning when the white\\nblanket of winter was spread over meadow, hill-\\nside, and roadway, an ox-sled guarded at each\\nside by an upright board, and seated with six\\nkitchen chairs, placed two abreast, waited while\\nJube chose his best whip, and with many direc-\\ntions settled in place the elder and the younger\\nslaves. Mandy, with numberless cautions, left\\nthe fire and the closed oven-door to Moll s care,\\nand with the little ones crowded about her kept\\na place for her mother-in-law still living at the\\nhouse of Thaddeus. Master and mistress, with\\ntheir own children, had led the way on horses,\\nand thus the keeping Christmas was begun.\\nIt seemed to the children to have begun before,\\nas there had been offerings made to the god of\\nfire for days. The little hands wearied not in\\nbringing in chips and kindlings to aid the bak-\\n179", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ning and the boiling, and the store-room door\\nclosed on a mine. Which of them could count\\nthe pies of mince and tart, of pumpkin, and\\napple, in long rows on the shelves, or measure\\nthe depths of the cider-apple-sauce in the big\\nstone-pots? And there were meats ready for\\nthe carver, ham and tongue pink and tender,\\nspare-ribs and chicken-pies, loaves of cake that\\nshowed crisped raisins, and an infinitude of cook-\\nies that, no matter how earnestly Mandy tried\\nto hide the secret of their making, the opening\\nof the oven-door always betrayed.\\nChristmas, and Thanksgiving Day also (the\\nlatter called in derision by Churchmen St. Pomp-\\nion s, or St. Pumpkin s, Day), were the rallying\\ndays for families. As years flew by, the children\\nof Daniel and Mary having settled in their own\\nhomes here and there, the younger households\\ngrew in numbers, and there were gay gatherings\\nwithin the walls and under the roof, so elastic\\nin its hospitality and measureless in its welcome.\\nIngenuity was often put to the test to place all\\nremaining over the nights, and although the\\ngreater number arrived after the church ser-\\nvice, and sought their own homes in the early\\niSo", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "ST. PUMPKIN S DAY AND CHRISTMAS\\nor late evenings, those living remotely were sure\\nof comfort.\\nThe long dining-table and small tables set\\nin the corners of the room for the children,\\nmade a board groaning indeed with its\\nplenitude, around which all stood with the\\nhush of reverence while grace was said. The\\nchildren s eyes shone as the young pig, roasted\\nto a turn and bearing a red apple in his mouth,\\nfollowed the boiled Indian pudding, of which\\nsympathetic mothers had served them sparingly\\nknowing there were daintier bits to follow, for\\nno child properly trained might leave a portion\\nuneaten. Eager appetites, but restrained hands,\\ntook thankfully all that was assigned of baked\\nand boiled, stewed quinces and apple-sauce,\\npickled samphire and home-made cheese, pies\\nand custards, while there was endless liberty\\nafterward among the apples in the cellar and\\nthe nuts in the garret.\\nThe children played the games their fathers and\\nmothers had played, and when evening prayers\\nand the good-byes to those who lived near were\\nsaid, then the old house spread its wide wings\\nand the hours of silence found the beds and\\n181", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ntrundle-beds that had been well warmed by the\\nlong-handled brass warming-pan, all showing\\nthe forms of sleepers. Even the cricket-bed-\\nstead the old-time cot-bed made by two\\npairs of cross-pieces (French criquet) connected\\nby poles and spread with heavy tow-cloth\\nthat with one end tucked under Mandy s\\ncouch held usually one of her grandchildren, was\\npulled out at full length, and little woolly-heads\\nat both ends proved the surrender of other rest-\\ning-places. For Esther had come from New-\\ntown with Philo, her husband, and Peg as aid\\nand nurse to their little ones.\\nWhen the children were safely drifted into the\\nstream of sleep, the elders sat long before the\\nglowing fires in affectionate and happy compan-\\nionship, and from the steaming punch-bowl\\ndrank to each other in good wishes for the\\nfuture, then before separating, and all standing,\\nthey drank in silence to the memory of the\\ndeparted.\\n182", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "XXIII\\nTHE DAUGHTER S EDUCATION\\nSon after son coming of age had received a\\nportion of land the property qualification neces-\\nsary to make him a voter and, soon marrying,\\nhad settled on the hills near or far. Thaddeus in\\nthe grandfather s house, Benjamin on Booth s\\nHill, Jeremiah on Israel s Hill, William and\\nGershom on Grassy Hill, Esther in Newtown,\\nleft by the time Gloriana reached young lady-\\nhood, only Isaiah at home and the younger\\nbrother Victory.\\nGloriana, in figure like her father, tall and\\nslight, with brown hair and gray eyes, of bright\\nmind and clear comprehension, had the pride,\\nthe aspirations, and the day-dreams of most\\nyoung girls. As at Esther s marriage she was\\nbut ten years old, she had grown up as the only\\ndaughter of the household, her father s especial\\n183", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\npride and delight, and the only daughter of a\\nman of wealth might well expect a good share\\nof the opportunities of life, and a gratification of\\nsuch desires as stirred her ambition or her fancy.\\nBut travel was arduous and not undertaken save\\nfor necessity. An occasional ride in the saddle to\\nStratford or Newtown, and possibly once in a\\nyear or two to New Haven, made the farthest\\nbound of outings. The interest of one s environ-\\nment sufficed in large measure, and there was\\nlittle printed record to stir a desire for journey-\\nings for the mere sake of so doing.\\nThe business interests of the inland families\\nwere still effectively served by the able cap-\\ntains. Marketable products of all kinds, candles\\nand tow-cloth, beeswax, and flaxseed, goose-\\nquills by the hundred and hogs bristles by the\\npound, shoe-thread and feathers as well as fruits,\\nvegetables, salted meats, and cider, were con-\\nsigned with confidence to Robert Moore, cap-\\ntain of the schooner Sea-cow, and the other\\ncaptains at The Landing, Ripton s seaport, or\\nto those who sailed from The Narrows at Derby,\\nor from the Pequonnock.\\nRemote from the competitive centres as the\\n184", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "THE DAUGHTER S EDUCATION\\nlife was, its standard was never lowered, and\\nDaniel himself being counted very dressy, had\\nan eye to whatever might reasonably be obtained\\nfor personal adornment for wife and daughter,\\nas well as for himself, and kept some pace with\\nthe novelties in house-furnishing. England had\\nbegun manufacturing pottery and porcelain,\\nand, although the neighbors feared lest the hard\\nsurface should dull the edges of the knives, they\\ncould not withhold their envy and admiration\\nfor the dark-blue and white Spode dinner-\\nservice. It was at first reserved for state oc-\\ncasions, but ere long supplanted pewter on\\nthe master s table, sending the latter to the\\nslaves kitchen to take the place of wooden\\nplates.\\nRag-carpets had been evolved from the brain\\nof some inventive weaver, and while an ingrain\\ncarpet honored the parlor, strips, or whole cov-\\nerings of hit-or-miss rag-carpet gradually\\nswept the sand from the other floors. The par-\\nlor gloried in a wall-paper of rich floral pattern,\\nand later in a mirror with a wide all-gilt frame,\\nand four blue and white vases for the mantel-\\npiece completed its adornment. Glass-ware be-\\n185", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ncame common, and wash-bowls and pitchers of\\nblue and white English pottery were a marked\\nadvance over the coarse earthen-ware, and the\\npewter, brass, and wooden basins of earlier use.\\nMary was indulged in a black satin cardinal\\ncloak, 7 yards of black satin at 8/6 a yard,\\n2- 3 4 1 8 yards of black Persian for lining at\\n9/, to which was added a wide lace to trim the\\ncollar.\\nThere were as yet no boarding-schools, and\\nGloriana had but the advantages of the district-\\nschool, and the singing-school held every winter\\nin the evenings in the little school-house, one of\\nthe regular pleasures, both social and musical,\\nfor the young people. All learned to read music,\\nAndrew Law s Rudiments of Music being\\nthe usual text-book. The selections were chiefly\\nhymns and anthems, and the preliminary instruc-\\ntion gave the pronunciation of the notes faw,\\nlaw, etc., also the admonition, the principal\\nthing in singing is to have the heart deeply ef-\\nfected by the great truth matter in our melody,\\nthat it be done with solemnity, and due rever-\\nence before the Judge of quick and dead.\\nAs there was little of the outer world by which\\n186", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "THE DAUGHTER S EDUCATION\\nto measure themselves, there was bred in these\\nisolated communities a spirit of repose and con-\\ntent, ambition never slumbering-, but free from\\nrestlessness. Youth, as always, found its pleas-\\nure in frequent meetings for dancing, riding,\\nboating, and the strolls and visits ever dear. The\\nsemi-annual Trainings were the great excite-\\nment, full of life and bustle, and a chance for\\nmeeting strangers. Ripton had its ball-room,\\nand the great Leavenworth house down by t he\\nriver was a centre for pleasure. The older\\nhouse, the mansion, built by Dr. Thomas\\nLeavenworth in 1685, was wonderfully adorned\\nwith hangings of arras and other articles of value\\nbrought by him from England. In 1778 his\\ngrandson, Gideon Leavenworth, built the red\\nhouse, and to it some of the hangings were re-\\nmoved. This ambitious and enterprising builder\\nand ship-owner brought from New York in one\\nof his vessels a Frenchman who frescoed the\\nparlor in fine arabesque pattern, painting also\\nthe family coat-of-arms on the chimney-breast.\\nIn the upper story of this house was a ball-room,\\nfor Mr. Leavenworth having several daughters,\\ndesired to make his house a centre for pleasure,\\n187", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nthe balls being simply dancing-parties as al-\\nways, more exclusive than public balls.\\nMary herself, fond of social pleasures, was ever\\nready for any festivity, and also to mount her\\nhorse and canter off for a friendly visit. Cousin\\nCharity s house was one goal and Hepzibah s\\nanother, the visits growing in value as the years\\npassed, and friendship proved its strength, but\\nif she saw the traces of years on her friends, she\\nwas herself, in feeling and activity, as young as\\nwhen she first came to reign over the great\\nhouse.\\nThe Tories were slow in coming into public\\noffice, but those who had been prominent in\\nthe days of warfare were so now in the days of\\npeace. Captain Beach was a member of the\\nlegislature at Hartford, and Charity, accompany-\\ning him there, gave opportunity for the painting\\nof their portraits by an English artist, who faith-\\nfully reproduced the elderly but still handsome\\ncaptain, with his high collar and ruffled s hirt,\\nand his queenly Charity in gown of brown satin,\\nwhite cap, and kerchief, and the double row of\\ngold beads she had worn since her marriage.\\nThese finely painted portraits, and those of\\n188", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "THE DAUGHTER S EDUCATION\\nSquire Mills and his wife, at Ripton, by the same\\nhand, moved the neighborhood to a high state\\nof interest and excitement, for whatever one or\\nanother brought from busier centres was freely\\nexhibited, and was the subject of comment, or\\napproval, perhaps of envy.\\nThe very small tea-dishes of Mary s mar-\\nriage were supplemented by those of newer pat-\\ntern, set with a wreath of flowers about the brim.\\nThe cups and saucers had grown larger, custard-\\ncups with handles had appeared, and tea-sets of\\nblack Wedgwood were sometimes to be had at\\nthe store of Squire Mills in Ripton, which had\\nlong been of wide reputation and included every-\\nthing needed for house or farm, for master or\\nservant, for food or clothing.\\nBy 1786, The New Haven Gazette and Connecti-\\ncut Magazine began to find its way to the hills\\nregularly, William Carpenter, the post-rider, de-\\nlivering it at appointed stations. Such easy and\\nfrequent contact with the world beyond marked\\nan epoch, and the eight pages, each about twelve\\ninches square, published at 9/ per annum, were\\nthoroughly read and digested, the advertisements\\nof various kinds being of increasing interest.\\n189", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nNo matter how important are affairs of state, per-\\nsonality is attractive, and even if it is strangers\\nthat advertise Stolen in New Haven a white\\nsatin cloak (woman s) lined with light blue Per-\\nsian, trimmed with white thread lace Lost\\nout of saddle-bags black taffety sack and petti-\\ncoat, claret-colored taffety and a crimson colored\\nmiffinet gown that feeling is stirred that\\nmakes the whole world kin.\\n190", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "XXIV\\nYOUNG LADYHOOD\\nStratford village, the home of maternal\\ngrandparents and numberless kindred, could add\\nmuch to the gayety of a girl s life, and Gloriana\\nknew well what pleasure she might find at Lazy\\nBank, in Tea-party Lane, and all up and down\\nthe wide street from Paradise Green to Sandy\\nHollow. Here she met her first lover, who, ere\\nshe was seventeen, had gone so far in his court-\\ning as to write to her with better fervor than\\northography, with a flourish of capitals and exal-\\ntation of feeling, the latter serving to entangle\\nexpression and to prove his youth. The letter,\\nwith signature carefully cut out, has been thus\\nlong preserved.\\nStratford, March 22nd, 1788.\\nDr. Miss.\\nSince our last happy meeting it s with pleas-\\nure I inform you that I have enjoyed my health\\n191", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nas usual, hoping these to find you in the like\\nsituation. O Gloriana may that Last happy time\\nwith the blessing of God, When I had those En-\\ndearing sentiments of your soul Bestowed upon\\nme Add lasting happiness to that striking Object\\nof Which I [signature cut out renders a few words\\nillegible]. But oh, let not the little Distance\\nwe are appart deprive us of Each other with\\na pleasing melancholy this letter takes place in-\\nstead of my person. But as it s the lott of many\\nmust submitt, hoping the little Vacation Between\\nour personal Appearance to wear away when I\\nmay Embrace that happy moment in Being with\\na long absent friend and Could wish that our\\nabsence may add Lasting friendship to our\\nfuture happiness. The subject on which we talkt\\nof is firmly established only your Complyance\\nwanting to Compleat our happiness. Your\\nCountenance Actions and lovely features is not\\nout of my mind one moment and as you have the\\ncharge of my heart you l hold it sacred on my\\naccount. As this Bosom Pin is prickt through\\nthis letter so I hope your heart Linkt in with\\nmine and hope will be as lasting as Abraham\\nAbdely who lived in perfect peace and harmony.\\n192", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "YOUNG LADYHOOD\\nWriting and Receiving of Letters Especially\\nfrom a friend is Very Beneficial. But to Re-\\nceive one from your Ladyship I shall esteem as\\nheaven s blessing. But either by meeting per-\\nsonally or by letters would be the means of Re-\\nviving that little acquaintance which I have had\\nwith you, and to support a Correspondence\\nwhich if it should prove otherways would be an\\nEmbarrassment not small.\\nI have nothing more to advise of at present\\nonly that all friends are well and my Comply-\\nments to all yours. I hope to see you soon As\\nI cannot live so Abstemious a life, so after wish-\\ning you all the happiness this world Can afford,\\nwhich I expect you l let me have a little share of,\\nI in the interim of time Remain your Ever Af-\\nfectionate friend Lover\\nN.B. An Answer from you by the same\\nBearer would be Convayd with safety which I\\nshall expect.\\nSo no more at present.\\nThe large time-yellowed sheet still shows\\nwhere a long pin had been prickt through it,\\n193", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nand undoubtedly treasured as well as the letter,\\neven though the youth built on too slight a\\nfoundation, for after a time the correspondence\\nceased, and Gloriana finding life full of pleasure,\\nfelt no haste to enter into matrimony. When\\nshe sat at her chamber-window facing the\\nsunset, putting fine even stitches in her em-\\nbroidery, she pondered on this lover and that,\\nand though their little gifts might be treasured,\\nand the letters well conned, there was but nay\\nto answer.\\nThere was great readiness to take up a pen,\\nand frequent opportunity to send a letter by\\nhand of passing friend or neighbor; girls who\\nfound each other congenial were quick to bridge\\nthe separating distance by frequent communica-\\ntions, and interchange of confidences. Down\\nin Oronoque, on the way to Stratford, a fine\\nold house still remembered, was named by the\\nromantic daughter for Petrarch s home in\\nFrance, Vaucluse, and the girl s letters bore that\\nheading. Gloriana s dearest girl-friend, however,\\nwas a Miss Patty, of North Stratford, and even if\\nthey met with much regularity on Sundays,\\nthere was always something to be said on week-\\n194", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "YOUNG LADYHOOD\\ndays. Miss Patty thus begins the correspond-\\nence:\\nWith pleasure do I dedicate these spare\\nmoments to the Sweet converse with my much\\nesteemed friend for when I take a Retrospect-\\nive vew of the past year of pleasure improve-\\nment I have enjoyed in your company I flatter\\nmyself the pleasing Anticipation of an agreeable\\nhappy Correspondence to be commenced and\\nwhen commenced I hope it may be long continued\\nand promoted. I s hould be glad to know how\\nyou spent your time or who with a-Training\\nwe spent our time very agreeable there was all-\\nmost every Lad here from Danbury I am cer-\\ntain had you been here your heart would have\\nbeen pierced if it had not been Marble I hope\\nto see you at Church Sunday if nothing happens\\nmore than I expect I shall be there. Good by\\nfrom her who never ceases to admire you is\\nby every sentiment of humanity yours in es-\\nteem and friendship\\nPatty.\\nP.S. Love to all.\\nOver more than a century has drifted down-\\nward some of Miss Patty s confidences, frag-\\n195", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nmentary, but giving their evidence of the one-\\nness of humanity, however the age and environ-\\nment may differ:\\n1788.\\nDear Miss.\\nYours of Sunday evening lies before me. It\\nis an old observation that it is much easier to\\ncontinue a Correspondence than to begin one.\\nI fully join with you as to the absence of Ideas\\nin the first forming acquaintance; this obstacle\\nbeing now Removed I hope for the future all\\nletters may follow the fate of the first.\\nI am exceedingly fond of Corresponding with\\nboth Gentlemen and Ladies, particularly the lat-\\nter and still more especially those possessed\\nof the first and Richest of Heaven s gifts: A\\nSusceptible Heart! The Breast that can feel for\\nanother s woes; the eye that can glisten with\\nanother s sorrows; the mind that can sympa-\\nthize in a stranger s adversity or participate in\\ntheir pleasure, is as much superior to a Bosom\\nof Common feelings as the charm of the\\nIt is a source of regret that but this fragment\\n196", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "YOUNG LADYHOOD\\nremains, for the finale must have stirred Miss\\nPatty deeply. All her correspondents were not\\nequally fervent. One addressing her with no\\nformal beginning wrote:\\nWithdraw thy foot from thy neighbor s\\nhouse, lest he grow weary Saith the Scripture.\\nWithdraw thy foot Replies the feelings to\\na too frequent visitor. I look down street every\\nnight wishing to see you, but I am at your house\\nquite too often, I know I am, for a stranger. I\\nconclude some of the Ladies are not very anx-\\nious to See me. I Remember one of them told\\nme she would let me know when they visited\\nMiss Eunice Curtiss, I was not admitted last\\nMonday even, however, all one tomorrow.\\nBut to tell you the truth! I have not Seen\\na well Day for near a fortnight and whether\\never I shall again or not is uncertain. But I am\\nprepared for almost everything; lightly esteem\\nthis world. I think I have some desire to sail\\nupon a star. I have chosen mine, I view it every\\nclear night, I contemplate futurity, there is\\nsomething very pleasing to me in the tho ts of\\na future existence that I can fully let go all\\nfinite enjoyments: forgive me I am in a thought-\\n197", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nful mood this morning you well know I am\\nfond of Your Correspondence.\\nYours this 29th Day\\nT. M.\\nThe marriage of Isaiah left only the younger\\nVictory at home with Gloriana, but the maiden\\nnever lacked a squire when festivities called\\nout pleasure-lovers, and, in her fine gowns of\\npearl-gray and peach-blow satin, the tall girl\\nfailed not of observation. The slippers worn\\nwith those rich gowns were of the same satin,\\nand there were others of black kid bound with\\ndeep yellow, the very pointed toes wrought with\\nbeads and spangles. All travelling was still on\\nsaddle and pillion, and the ride to Ripton\\nchurch, was with a fine gown pinned up about the\\nwaist, and covered with a dust-cloth. Long mitts\\ncovered the bare arms and the hands that held\\nthe prayer-book bound in red and gold morocco.\\nBesides the service of the sanctuary there was\\nthe usual chance for friendly meetings, the\\nluncheon at a kinsman s house, the strolling\\namong the graves in the churchyard, reading\\nfor the hundredth time that outlet for the re-\\n198", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "YOUNG LADYHOOD\\npressed feeling of the day the sentimental verse\\ninscribed on the tombstone and the oppor-\\ntunity to give a bashful swain a few words that\\nmight prove a sweet cud for his meditation.\\n199", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "XXV\\nBOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS\\nBy the PRESIDENT\\nof the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nA Proclamation.\\nWhereas it is the Duty of all Nations to ac-\\nknowledge the Providence of Almighty God,\\nto obey his will, to be grateful for his Benefits,\\nand humbly to implore his Protection and\\nFavor; And whereas both Houses of Congress\\nhave, by their joint Committee, requested me\\nTo recommend to the People of the United\\nStates a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer\\nto be observed by acknowledging with grateful\\nHearts the many and signal favors of Almighty\\nGod especially by affording them an Opportu-\\nnity peaceably to establish a Form of Govern-\\nment for their Safety and Happiness,\\nNow therefore, I do recommend and assign\\n200", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS\\nThursday, the Twenty-sixth Day of November\\nnext to be devoted by the People of these States\\nto the service of that great and glorious Being,\\nwho is the benificent Author of all the good that\\nwas, that is, or that will be:\\nThat we may then all unite in rendering unto\\nHim our sincere and humble Thanksgiving for\\nhis kind Care and Protection of the People of\\nthis Country previous to their becoming a Na-\\ntion; for the signal and manifold Mercies and\\nthe favorable Interpositions of his Providence\\nin the Course and Conclusion of the late war;\\nfor the great Degree of Tranquility, Union, and\\nPlenty, which we have since enjoyed; for the\\npeaceable and rational Manner in which we have\\nbeen enabled to establish Constitutions of Gov-\\nernment for our Safety and Happiness, and par-\\nticularly the national one now lately insti-\\ntuted; for the civil and religious Liberty with\\nwhich we are blessed, and the Means we have of\\nacquiring and diffusing useful Knowledge; and\\nin general for all the great and various Favors\\nwhich he hath been pleased to confer upon us.\\nAnd also, That we may then unite in most\\nhumbly offering our Prayers and Supplications\\n201", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nto the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and be-\\nseech him to pardon our national and other\\nTransgressions; to enable us all, whether in pub-\\nlic or private Stations, to perform our several\\nand relative Duties properly and punctually;\\nto render our national Government a Blessing to\\nall the People by constantly being a Government\\nof wise, just, and Constitutional Laws, discreetly\\nand faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect\\nand guide all Sovereigns and Nations, (espe-\\ncially such as have shown kindness unto us) and\\nto bless them with good Government, Peace,\\nand Concord; to promote the Knowledge and\\nPractice of true Religion and Virtue, and the\\nEncrease of Science among them and us; and\\ngenerally to grant unto all Mankind such a De-\\ngree of temporal Prosperity as he alone knows\\nto be best.\\nGiven under my Hand at the City of New\\nYork, the third Day of October in the Year of\\nour Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and\\nEighty-nine.\\nG. Washington.\\nAs this was read in all the churches on the\\nfollowing Sunday, even those whose sympathies\\n202", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS\\nhad not been with the war could enter into its\\nspirit with sincerity, the manifold blessings of\\npeace and an established government moving all\\nto rejoicing and gratitude. The clouds that had\\ndarkened the dawning of the new nation s life\\nwere finally dispelled, and its sun had risen in a\\nclearer sky.\\nThe year 1789 proved a memorable one for\\nRipton; asserting its independence of Stratford,\\nit became a town, naming itself with patriotic en-\\nthusiasm for one of the signers of the Declara-\\ntion of Independence and the Governor of the\\nState, Huntington. But with all the pride\\nin the present, the old name dear to so many,\\nand that came more trippingly on the tongue,\\nlingered in common usage, and even after a\\nhundred years have passed it is still uttered,\\nbearing to those who use it an association reach-\\ning back to the older days and people, the oldest\\nhomes and graves.\\nRipton was worthy of honor, sending out to\\nthe greater world illustrious sons and daugh-\\nters, to fill places of power in the great cities, to\\nfound new communities in the ever-opening\\nWest, to drift as does the soil from the hill-\\n203", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nsides to the valleys, enchaining the rivers, and\\nenriching the world with the power of water as\\nthe fathers had with the power of land. Some\\nremained on the ancestral acres, firm ground\\nfor the growth of true manhood and loyal citi-\\nzenship, of sturdy principles, of valor and\\nstrength, that would again be at the nation s\\nservice, even those whose hearts turned formerly\\nto the King bidding a son God-speed to aid the\\nwar of 1812.\\nAfter Victory s marriage Gloriana was left\\nalone with her parents. The large estate was\\ngreatly diminished by setting off to the various\\nsons their portions, and the slaves, suffering also\\nby division and somewhat by death, were fewer.\\nBut it was still a house of plenty, of comfort, of\\nhospitality, with a coming and going that made\\nthe remote life full of variety. Of occupation\\nthere was no limit. A girl had always the free-\\ndom of spinning all she would, and the woven\\nproduct was hers. No maiden properly brought\\nup would think herself prepared to marry until\\nshe had at least ten pairs of linen sheets and had\\nknitted a pillow-case full of stockings. Linen\\nwas woven a yard wide, and in such length that,\\n204", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS\\ncut in two and sewed together, the web would\\nmake a sheet. After leaving the loom it must be\\nbleached. The bleaching-ground was east of the\\nhouse, where the wide level reaches over to its\\nrocky abutment, and there, under the May sun,\\nthe linen, fastened by tapes at the corners to\\npegs driven in the ground, was first well\\nsprinkled with weak lye and then with water\\nseveral times daily, until it seemed a veritable\\nsnowdrift on the short grass. A new design in\\nweaving, called Stratford Beauty, which\\nmaids and matrons went wild over, originated\\nwith Silas Burton. There was always a choice\\nof weaves basket, diaper, and bird s-eye, for\\nnone wished to be behind the fashion. Coins\\nwere also a part of a girl s accumulation that\\nthey might be converted into spoons, against the\\nday when she should preside at her own table.\\nGloriana watched the bleaching of her linen\\nMay after May, delighting in its fineness and\\nwhiteness, even sometimes sending flax to the\\npond in Stratford to be rotted, as the result\\nwas whiter if that process took place in salt\\nwater. She had a supply of blankets also, white\\nand blue and yellow plaids, almost a decoration\\n205", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nin themselves. She grew very proud of her store,\\noverflowing from one chest to another, all care-\\nfully hemmed and marked in fine cross-stitch\\nwith her initials, each initial being followed by as\\nmany small dots as would complete the letters of\\nthe name.\\nThe increase of periodicals was valued. A\\nnew commercial centre called Newneld started\\nin Stratford at the mouth of the Pequonnock.\\nThither went merchants from the interior, and\\nenterprise soon formed the nucleus of the\\nfuture city of Bridgeport. A new paper, called,\\nprophetically, it seems, The American Tele-\\ngraph, was put forth, and its items and adver-\\ntisements were eagerly sought. Newfield\\nrepresented home interests much more than\\nNew Haven, but even though The Telegraph\\nmight reprint a letter from Calcutta, news from\\nthe ships in the Mediterranean, and records of\\nvarious countries, personal interest was touched\\nby the fact that Geese in public pound are to be\\nsold in 24 hours after advertising on public sign-\\npost. Rate of poundage for each Goose Two\\ncents, whereof three quarters to the impounders\\nand one quarter to the Key-keeper. Runa-\\n206", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS\\nway negroes, articles lost and found, and the\\nhousehold necessaries advertised for sale, were\\nimportant. Marriages and deaths were not\\ngrouped, but tucked anywhere in the corners.\\nBooks were largely advertised: Calvinism Im-\\nproved or the Gospel Illustrated as a system of\\nReal Grace, issuing in the Salvation of All Men.\\nA review of the book in the following issue as-\\nsured the possible readers that the style is neat,\\neasy and perspicuous. The name of Tom Paine\\nhad come to be synonymous with all horrors,\\nand some one advertised: In despite of Deism,\\nTom Paine and the Devil the following very\\nvaluable book is offered for sale, The Pious Chris-\\ntian\\nThe New York Weekly Museum, four small\\npages published at a dollar and a half a year,\\ngave news of the greater seaport, and, ere a con-\\nsignment of the land s resources was shipped, a\\ncareful list could be made from its tempting col-\\numns. Gilt Writing Paper was for sale at the\\nMagazine Store near the Tea-Water Pump.\\nJohn Harrisson s Book Shop at Peck Slip\\nmuch of the shopping was at Peck Slip offered\\nThe Ladies Friend, being a Treatise on the\\n207", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nVirtues and Qualifications which are the Bright-\\nest Ornaments of the Fair Sex and render them\\nmost agreeable to the sensible part of man-\\nkind. The Museum gave also a glimpse of the\\nworld beyond, unattainable, save in imagination:\\nTO THE CURIOUS.\\nA BEAUTIFUL AFRICAN LION\\nTo be seen every day, Sundays excepted, at the Ball alley\\nin the Fields next to the corner of Murray Street in\\nBroadway.\\nHe was caught in the woods of Goree in Africa, when\\na whelp and brought from thence to New York.\\nTHEATRE.\\nKing Richard III by the Old American Company.\\nDoors open a Quarter after Four and the curtain\\ndrawn up a Quarter after Six o clock. Box s., Pit 6s.\\nGallery 4s.\\nA Morning School, 26 Veasy S\\nYoung Ladies only will be admitted; his time of at-\\ntendance will be from 6 to 8 o clock. Reading, Writing,\\nArithmetic and Geography will be principally attended to\\n(or either of them). Other branches if desired.\\nOr more desirable might be\\nATTENTION!!! YOUNG LADIES.\\nAt no. 60 Catharine St., Are taught the following\\nbranches of Education to Youth of both Sexes, vix,\\nReading, Wrighting, Arithmetic, English Grammer, Latin\\n208", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS\\nand Greek, Geography, Composition, Speaking, Naviga-\\ntion, Guaging, Surveying, Mensuration, Book-Keeping\\nand Tambouring to Young Ladies on the most reason-\\nable terms; also an Evening School is now open for\\nYoung Men and Apprentices. Poor Girls are taught\\nGratis on Sabbath Days.\\nThe Museum had ways of its own. Selected\\nverse was grouped under the head Court of\\nApollo; marriages under Court of Hymen;\\nwhile deaths were classed as Melancholy, and\\nwhen the tidings of Robert Burns death was\\nrecorded, the universal regret was expressed by:\\nThe Muses droop\\nGenius unprop d begins to stoop\\nHer bard is gone.\\nThere were tailors, milliners, hair-dressers,\\nmantua-makers offering novelties, and also\\nshops that advertised dress-goods, jewellery,\\nhousehold goods, etc., and among more serious\\nmatters the verse:\\nA wedding s a wedding the universe over\\nFrom Pekin to London, from Turkey to Dover,\\nMarried folks are the same wherever they re born\\nFrom the Cape of Good Hope till you double Cape\\nHorn.\\nThe year 1796 marked a new venture in peri-\\nodicals and one number, perhaps the only one\\n209", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nthat reached it, has come down from the old\\nhouse. It is 4 by 7 inches in size and of two\\ndozen pages:\\nTHIS DAY is published\\n(Price 25 cents)\\nNo II of the\\nLady Gentleman s\\nPocket Magazine\\nof\\nLiterary Polite Amusement\\nNew York\\nPrinted by John Tiebout No. 358 Pearl St.\\n1796.\\nThe contents are classified in Biographiana,\\nScrapiana, Tales, Travels, Select Poetry, Mar-\\nriages, and Deaths, a note on the back cover\\nsaying, A Box is placed in the window under\\nHomer s head no. 358 Pearl Street for the recep-\\ntion of notes from correspondents c, and else-\\nwhere the end of this century seems anticipated\\nby a notice: Those who procure twelve sub-\\nscribers will receive a thirteenth copy gratis.\\nThe book-closet increased in wealth and\\nvariety. The Stories of Sindbad and Aladdin,\\nThe History of Miss Betsey Thoughtless,\\nTheodore; or, the Gamester s Progress,\\nCharlotte Temple, The Coquette; or, the\\n210", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS\\nHistory of Eliza Wharton, a Novel Founded on\\nFact, and others, lightened the heavier reading\\nof Exercises of the Heart, by the Late Pious\\nand Ingenious Mrs.Rowe, Lockhart s History\\nof Scotland, Josephus, and the serious books\\nof the day. The usual bent, however, was for\\nimproving literature, and the long sentences of\\ninvolved thought then in fashion were enjoyed.\\nGreen s Annual Register, although only 4 by 6\\ninches in size, was a mine of information. In\\naddition to the regular almanac, its weather\\npredictions interspersed with moral sayings,\\nLife is spent before we know what it is to\\nlive, historical records, saints days, col-\\nlege commencement and other dates, it gave\\nthe rulers of all countries, the public officers of\\nthis country, with all those in every capacity in\\nthe State, roads, tables of interest, values of for-\\neign coins, and the relative values of New Eng-\\nland, New York, and the Carolina currencies; in\\nfact, answering almost every question of an in-\\nquiring mind.\\nThus the touch was kept with things remote,\\nfeeling was stirred with sympathy, with ambi-\\ntion, with mutual interests; patriotism grew in\\n211", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nhearts that had doubted as firmly as in those\\nthat saw with clearer vision, and when, on July\\n4, 1795, there being then fifteen States admitted\\nto the Union, the corner-stone for the State\\nHouse in Boston was drawn into place by fifteen\\nwhite horses, amid great rejoicing, the echo\\nthereof might have been heard throughout New\\nEngland.\\n212", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "XXVI\\nYOUTH AND AGE\\nDr. Jenner had not as yet blessed the world\\nwith the discovery of the value of vaccination,\\nand small-pox was the great dread of the day.\\nIn 1777 six hundred persons were ill with it at\\none time in Stratford township, and fear is a\\nburned child! The positive horror felt for the\\ndisease was so great that the treatment of the\\nunfortunate victims seemed almost inhuman,\\nsave that there was no other way known to avoid\\ndanger. A student, obliged to leave Yale College\\nbecause of illness, found his weary way to a native\\nhill-top, and, on arriving, the dreaded symptoms\\nhaving developed and his parents not being\\nalive, he was allowed no refuge but an old barn,\\ndying there after scant care, and, as was cus-\\ntomary, was buried at midnight. Pest-houses\\nwere established, where a person exposed to the\\n213", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ndisease must retreat, and, even when he returned\\nhome cured, he could not be allowed to enter his\\nown house for some days, but must sleep in an\\noutbuilding until the fear of contagion had\\nworn off. Inoculation began to be practised,\\nthe virus being taken from a human being, not,\\nas by Jenner, from the cow, and giving the\\ngenuine, not the kine-pox. Notices of the es-\\ntablishment of pest-houses were published:\\nInoculation.\\nThe Authority Select Men of Fairfield\\nhaving again appointed the House now occu-\\npied by Capt. Nathan Adams for Inoculation, the\\nsubscriber proposes to receive Patients therein,\\nfrom this date to the last of April next. And as\\nno one died of inoculation last year, as no one\\nwas dangerous, as no one had it the natural\\nway after inoculation, and as no one gave it to\\nany person after they left the Pest-House, he\\nthinks it will be a sufficient encouragement for\\nthose who wish to have the Small Pox this sea-\\nson to put themselves under his care.\\nHOSEA HURLBERT.\\nGreenfield, January nth, 1797.\\n214", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "YOUTH AND AGE\\nIn 1799 Ripton or Huntington issued a\\ndeclaration:\\nWhereas two thirds of the Inhabitants Le-\\ngally assembled in Town meeting in Hunting-\\nton Voted that they gave Liberty for the\\nInoculation of the Small-Pox In conse-\\nquence of which, we the Major Part of the Civil\\nAuthority and Select Men upon the appli-\\ncation of and other inhabitants of said\\nHuntington Do Grant Permission for the\\nSmall-Pox to be communicated by Inoculation\\nat the following houses set apart for the Purpose\\nand they are strictly required to pay Care-\\nful attention to, and be Intirely under the Order,\\nRules, and Regulations to wit:\\nistly. (Setting apart certain houses.)\\n2ndly. (Appointing Doctors for the Houses\\nwith Tenders and Nurses.)\\n3rdly. We do further order that no Person\\nor Persons who may receive the Small-Pox by\\nInoculation and Enter said Houses, and during\\nhis, her, or their continuance there may not go\\nmore than fifteen rods from said Houses Sev-\\nerally, and the Nurses and Tenders are to ob-\\n215", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nserve the same rule, and said Nurses and Tend-\\ners are Directed to have a well-loaded musket\\nwhile at said Houses and to kill every Dog\\nCat that shall come within gunshot of said\\nhouses.\\n4thly. (Directions for disinfecting.)\\n5thly. (Forbidding persons having heretofore\\nhad the Small-Pox from going within certain\\ndistance.)\\n6th. (Committee for disinfecting.)\\n7th. (Forbidding all Persons to receive In-\\noculation except under above rules.)\\nN.B. (Certain repetitions of above and the\\norder to make four copies of this act one for each\\nPest-House nd one to be set on each of two\\npublic signposts.)\\nDuly signed by Civil Authority, etc.\\nThis process produced a mild type of small-\\npox, very rarely proving fatal, and Gloriana, like\\nmany others, sought relief from the ever-present\\nfear by entering the pest-house, enduring the\\ndiscomfort, isolation, and confinement, for the\\nsake of the relief to herself and others.\\nThe last sands of the century were running\\n216", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "YOUTH AND AGE\\nout when the earthly life dearest to American\\nhearts came to an end. The boys in all the\\nschool-houses wore crape on their left arms for\\nsix months, in memory of Washington, who was\\nabove all Greek, above all Roman fame, and\\nwho had proved the nation s hope, piloting her\\nthrough the worst storms, and gaining for her\\na firm anchorage. New days were to come, a\\nnew century was near, and the training through\\nstruggle and difficulty had fitted many for the\\npresent duties. The young navy was bearing it-\\nself bravely, and there was a settling into place,\\nwhile the eye looked with steady gaze into the\\nfuture. States and statesmen gave proud alle-\\ngiance, and the nation proved her power.\\nIn 1801 Gloriana reached the age of thirty,\\nquite an advanced one for a single woman, and\\nstill no suitor had appeared whom she would\\nfavor. But the new century had lost but\\na few of its years when she met in Derby\\na widower about her own age, whose suit\\nwas duly approved. In addition to the fact\\nthat he pleased her fancy, and was well-es-\\nteemed, she weighed others. He had recently\\nbought a comfortable house, he was a merchant,\\n217", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nhe lived in a town, and she could walk to church!\\nHaving lived always four miles from the Centre,\\nthe base for supplies, material and spiritual, there\\nwas a strong power in the thought of being in\\nthe midst of things and within short walking\\ndistance of the greatest of all desires and attrac-\\ntions. Mere romance had had its day, and the\\nweightier side of a new life was considered, re-\\nsulting in Gloriana s being transplanted from\\nhill-top to valley, from comparative isolation to\\nthe variety and activity of a town with its social\\nand business interests, its river and shipping,\\nand its contact with neighbors separated, not\\nby long acres or steep hill-sides, but by door-\\nyards.\\nThe old house, nearing its latitude 50\\nfelt a delightful flutter in renewing its youth,\\nand in again preparing for a wedding. Glori-\\nana s chests were full indeed. They held no less\\nthan thirty pairs of linen sheets, with towels and\\ntable linen, blankets and coverlids, curtains, and\\nvalances in profusion. Nor was the quota of\\nstockings lacking, nor the linen underclothing,\\ngowns and petticoats, scarfs and riding-cloaks,\\nor whatever was of use, of fashion, or of heart s\\n218", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "YOUTH AND AGE\\ndesire. Calico was very expensive, therefore\\nmore to be desired than satin. The wedding-\\ngown of India calico, a dark blue ground spread\\nwith gold-colored flowers, was short-waisted and\\nlong-sleeved, with the skirt puckered on the belt\\nin the most approved style.\\nFor furnishings also the latest patterns must\\nbe had. There was a long sideboard on slim\\nlegs, with curving front and rich brasses, its\\npretty cupboard stocked with tea-dishes, finely\\nfluted decanters and wineglasses. A gilded\\neagle rested on top of the parlor mirror, which\\nreflected the vases and candlesticks on the man-\\ntelpiece. There were spindle-legged tables and\\nfiddle-back chairs, and those of newer style\\npainted black, with gilt scroll-work. For her\\nown apartment there was an escritoire, really\\na chest of drawers, the front of the upper drawer\\nletting down on hinges to serve for a desk.\\nThis fine piece of work in cherry was inlaid with\\nholly in little shields and fine lines, and the\\nbrasses, chosen with care, were ever a lesson to\\na good mother and housewife, the back-plate\\nof each handle showing a bee-hive and the motto\\nNothing without labor.\\n219", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nThen there were small, square washstands,\\npier-foot tables, swell-front bureaus, long mir-\\nrors with inlaid frames, or small oval ones\\nswinging over a shallow drawer set on the dress-\\ning-table. And there were bedsteads with\\narched canopy-frames, to be hung with figured\\ncalico, chintz, or checkered linen, and window\\ncurtains of the same, all bordered with fringe of\\nnetting and tassels.\\nThe neighbors, making their formal or friendly\\nvisits, always welcomed an opportunity to ex-\\namine the fine Chinese and English ware, the\\nlarge platters and open dishes of white, edged\\nwith a fringe of green, the more common blue\\nand white willow pattern, mugs and odd plates\\nfrom India, and a few bits of Wedgwood. Tea-\\nspoons were still small and light, but table-\\nspoons were heavy and rich in decoration.\\nTankards had gone out of fashion, and china\\ncharmed the eye for the tea-service. Gloriana s\\npredecessor had left a daughter and two sons;\\nthe daughter, Zerviah, grown to attractive young\\nmaidenhood, had a beau, the captain of a\\nmerchant vessel sailing for China, and by him\\nGloriana sent for her best tea-set, which, duly\\n220", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "YOUTH AND AGE\\narriving, when unpacked from its nest of tow\\nrevealed coffee- and tea-dishes, helmet pitcher,\\nsugar- and slop-bowls, tea-caddy and cake plates,\\nall decorated with a border of gold stars, each\\npiece bearing a finely painted eagle holding the\\nAmerican shield inscribed with Gloriana s ini-\\ntials. Delicate in quality and fine in workman-\\nship, this tea-set was the marvel of the neigh-\\nborhood. Others had come in a similar way, but\\nno other so fine had appeared, and the tea-\\nparties at which it figured were long remem-\\nbered.\\nGloriana s husband was part owner in a sloop\\nin which he went to New York to make pur-\\nchases for his store. This afforded opportunity\\nfor Gloriana to visit the great city, and also to\\ndiscover and secure rare articles of various\\nkinds. It was a novel experience to sail down\\nthe beautiful river winding among the hills, then\\nto run out on the wide Sound, and skirt its\\nshores all the way to Hell Gate. The uncer-\\ntainty of wind made the voyage variable, it hav-\\ning been made in ten hours and again requiring\\nten days.\\nThe distance of the new home from the old\\n221", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-EOX HOUSE\\none on the hills was hardly half a dozen miles,\\nand the active father and mother often covered\\nit, while Gloriana herself thought little of the\\njourney in the saddle. And Gloriana was able\\nto gratify the desire that her child should be born\\nunder her father s roof. Charming as she found\\ntown life, the frequent passers-by, the neighbor-\\nliness of those whose gardens adjoined hers\\nand the frequent informal chats over the palings,\\nher deep love was for the home of her\\nyouth set against the sky. The house her\\nhusband had purchased shortly before her mar-\\nriage was a pleasant one, but a step or two\\nfrom the street, fine-growing elms shadowed it,\\nand within the fence periwinkle spread its\\ngreen leaves close up to the house walls, and\\naround the ro^ts of syringa and lilac bushes.\\nThe front door led from a small porch and wide\\ndoor-stone into a square entry, or space-way,\\nfrom which parlor and dining-room opened.\\nThe front door itself, cut in two horizontally,\\nmig^ht let the upper or knocker half swing back\\n(sure sign that the hostess was at home), while\\nthe closed lower part stayed a possible intruder.\\nThe hospitality of the day and the pleasure\\n222", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "YOUTH AND AGE\\nof frequent visitors, set the whole door wide open\\nwhen the weather permitted, and the large wool-\\nwheel being set in the space-way, Gloriana in\\nher afternoon gown of mull or taffety, and\\napron of fine cambric or muslin, stepped back\\nand forth, back and forth, on the sanded floor,\\nspinning soft, white yarn. Or sitting by her\\nchamber window overlooking the street, whence\\nshe could give a nod or a word to those going\\nor coming, she embroidered little caps, sleeves\\nof fine linen-cambric shirts, and dainty little\\nwhite slips, or set her hand to more practical\\nstitches.\\nThe life of the newly-married, when it involves\\nthe mothering of a grown-up daughter, and of\\nsons making ready to go out into the world, is\\nnot all romance, and a ready head and hand were\\nrequired for all their needs, mental and material.\\nZerviah soon married, passing out in great meas-\\nure from the step-mother s life; the sons also\\ngrew vigorous and capable, taking their places\\nin the outer world, filling them ably, and testify-\\ning in other States to the value and stability of\\nNew England training.\\nGloriana s only child first met this life as she\\n223", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ndesired, under the free air of the high hills and\\nthe roof of her ancestors. Clannishness was\\ncharacteristic of many of those whose descent\\nwas from the best class of the early settlers. The\\npride of rank, though rank itself was not, was\\noften retained, even in poverty, to an extent\\nunintelligible to those who cared not for its dis-\\ntinctions. It was not in the least an arrogance\\nof bearing, but a sense of birth, which made\\na clear dividing-line of feeling, and, however\\ngenial, social, or friendly, intercourse might be,\\nthe underlying realization was never lacking of\\nthat which generations of refined and educated\\nancestry can give. A keenly discriminating\\nparent expressed it to his daughter in the simple\\nphraseology of the day, A very nice young\\nman, Polly, but he ain t our sort!\\nGloriana felt it to be giving her child a privi-\\nlege that she should be born under the old roof,\\nfor, pleasant as was the home in Derby, it was not\\nexalted or hallowed by association with either\\nside of the family. On the upper hills under the\\nblue sky of June, when the tall grass was yet\\nwaving in fringing billows, and the birds were\\nsinging in welcome, the little girl was born.\\nShe received the name of Marietta, following\\n224", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "YOUTH AND AGE\\nthe sentimental or romantic fashion common at\\nthat period of embellishing the plainer name\\nfrom which it was derived. Two baptismal\\nnames were still uncommon, being rarely used\\nuntil the century was well under way, as may be\\nrealized by recalling the names of the nation s\\nhistory. But although at the baptism in the\\nRipton Church Marietta was the name\\nuttered by sponsor and priest, it was as Mary\\nthat the child was known, the dear grand-\\nmother s name falling most readily from the lips.\\nThis was a child to be worshipped in the silent\\nmanner of the time, not with lavish endearments\\nand self-absorbed interest, but in a secret shrine\\nin the mother s heart. She knew that her child\\nmust be fairer, brighter, better than others, still\\nthe repression of the day, the fear of fostering\\nself-love or self-conceit, the responsibility of\\nbringing up this darling to the highest sense of\\nduty, of rectitude, and of every desirable prin-\\nciple, forbade much outward demonstration.\\nPa and Ma might see in the opening intel-\\nlect a glowing promise for the future, but they\\nwould hardly lisp to each other, or acknowledge\\nto themselves, their firm belief in the wonder of\\nthe star risen above their horizon.\\n225", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nLittle Mary s visits to her grandparents were\\nalways a delight, even the tall grandfather stoop-\\ning to guide the first timid steps. From one of\\nthe green doors in the end of the house facing\\ntfhe street lay the path of narrow stones, and\\nlittle Mary had hardly learned to guide her own\\nfeet when these stones seemed laid for her espe-\\ncial pleasure. The fond grandfather, now past\\nthreescore and ten, led the child, as she stepped\\nback and forth on the little path, grasping one\\nof his long, slim fingers with her tiny hand.\\nAs she grew more independent she walked care-\\nfully behind him, watching lest she step on the\\ncracks between the stones, or finding her pleas-\\nure in stepping on the cracks only. There was\\nalways some new way of walking or jumping\\nalong the stones suggested by the active mind\\nto the little feet, and the blades of grass that\\nthrust themselves through the cracks were\\npulled off by her imperious fingers.\\nThe tall grandfather lifted the little girl, that\\nshe might see the baby birds in the robins nest,\\nand he led her carefully about the barn-yards,\\namid all the interesting life, young lambs timid\\nand woolly, tender-eyed calves and fuzzy, golden\\n226", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "YOUTH AND AGE\\nchickens. Nor, if he held her, was she afraid of\\nthe big gobbler, or of the line of great white\\ngeese. By the outer butt ry door grew a large\\nraspberry bush, and it was the fond hand of age\\nthat picked the ripe, black berries, fitting them\\nas thimbles on each of the little white ringers.\\nThere was great comradeship between the old\\nman and the little four-year-old bearing his\\nwife s name, a comradeship sweet and refreshing\\nto him, though to the child a matter of course.\\nIn the early twilight, when Grandmother\\nMary, sitting in her ottoman chair, shaped\\nwith practised hand the little foot of a soft white\\nstocking, Grandfather Daniel, holding the little\\ngirl on his knee closely to him, would bend his\\nsilvered head to her fair one, with a whisper to\\nthe child to ask from her grandmother a spin-\\nning song. The pedlers who toiled over the\\nrough roads with their packs carried, among\\nother novelties, ballads printed on single sheets\\nof paper, giving the words only, and the pedler\\nas a part of his trade must be able to sing\\nthe tunes, and must also be willing to stay long\\nenough to teach them to the purchaser. The\\nlatter having learned the air perfectly, pinned the\\n227", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\npage of words to her distaff, and, as she spun her\\ndaily stint, committed them to memory. Of all\\nthe store which Mary knew there were two\\nfavorites, and, the little girl being given the first\\nchoice, asked always for The Miser the\\ncatchy air pleasing a taste yet too young to\\nunderstand the lessons of life the song begin-\\nning:\\nA rich old miser courted me,\\nHis age was threescore years and three,\\nAnd I a girl of seventeen,\\nI wish his face I ne er had seen;\\nwhile the grandfather s favorite, sure to follow,\\nwas\\nThe Normandy Maid.\\ni\\njjpi i 1 ~^~rj j jl j i j PPi i i 1\\nliLP i i i ,1 .1\\n1 1 s U-\u00c2\u00b1j t4A J J j_j -I jij: J j n i\\nQA^wu- pr -Lu- AtZf- t So k* iCukt-Lu. c M L, /ly ftx\\nm p p= i j- t^=^^, i a j\\n*K\\nJrUtUvaJ t*. Art) {L-Ji c^-A. JU+4, CuJ. i Oc*~ !u*.t** X*\u00c2\u00ab~^ f.l W\\nOtivJ. iirtk L+vn*. hryn- \u00c2\u00a3x*. \u00c2\u00a3m\u00c2\u00a3tf*t v* *rrZL t **J- v\\n6**t-bi*. itv^-ijuv*hZ~], btrvr 4t*~L, Lufif. dun***. dt u. n\\\\ 7ne,\\n228", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "YOUTH AND AGE\\nI once knew a Normandy maid,\\nWhose sire was a crusty old elf,\\nAnd he was greatly afraid\\nThat the maiden would choose for herself;\\nSo he kept her quite under control,\\nBy the means of a good lock and key,\\nAnd I saw her one evening, poor soul,\\nLook down from her lattice on me,\\nAnd I saw her one evening, poor soul,\\nLook down from her lattice on me.\\nII\\nWith iron her lattice was barred,\\nTo none could she utter a word,\\nAnd I thought it wondrously hard\\nThat a maid should be caged like a bird,\\nSo at night, when sleep conquered her sire,\\nI arose with steps light and free,\\nAnd said, Should the house be on fire,\\nSweet maiden, come down unto me.\\nIll\\nSome branches I burned, and the smoke\\nBy the wind to the lattice conveyed;\\nCried Fire! till the father awoke\\nAnd let out the poor trembling maid.\\nHe was very near dead with the fright,\\nYet no spark nor flame could he see,\\nBut the maiden ran down with delight\\nTo the spark that had just set her free.\\n229", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nThe little head marked the time and the dear\\nold husband saw only the young wife, as the\\nvoice, yet sweet, though so far beyond its prime,\\nsang with a spirit more in accord with her step,\\nstill quick and elastic, than with the record of\\nyears in the family Bible.\\n230", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "XXVII\\nTHE HOUR OF SORROW\\nA sad hour came. October had lost nearly-\\nhalf its days when word was sent to Derby that\\nfear and anxiety dwelt in the old house, and\\nGloriana hastened to take her place by her\\nfather s bedside and to close the dear eyes as\\nthe presence of the Angel of Death was felt.\\nTidings of the event were sent far and near to\\nall kindred and friends, a verbal message gen-\\nerally, but to the parson at Ripton a formal\\nnotice from the eldest son that the honored\\nfather had passed away in the article of death.\\nAll the necessary preparations were the work\\nof friendly hands. The best of everything in\\nthe house was for the dead. The shroud, a gar-\\nment exactly the same for men and women, and,\\nunlike anything worn in life, was of fine white\\nlinen, perfectly plain, and cut so long that it was\\ntied together with a cord below the feet.\\n231", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nCoffins were made only as required, and were\\nof various woods, according to the means of\\nthose ordering them, cherry being the most ex-\\npensive. The long boards were kept already\\nsteamed and bent to the desired shape, the rule\\nbeing to make the head of the coffin one-third\\nnarrower than across the breast, and the foot\\none-third narrower than the head. The wood\\nwas stained dark and was highly polished. The\\ncoffin was lined with fine linen, its quality de-\\npending on the wealth of the family; a pillow\\nwas arranged by a bunch of shavings under the\\nlining, and a curtain of the linen, pinked on its\\nlower edge, and just long enough to cover the\\nface of the dead, was nailed to the head of the\\ncoffin. The lid was hinged so that the head-\\npiece could be laid back, and on the other part of\\nthe lid, over the breast, the form of a heart en-\\nclosed the initials and figures denoting the age\\nof the dead, all outlined in brass-headed nails.\\nThe coffin-maker lived at a distance and an\\nox-cart must transport his work. An outside\\nbox was never used, and the handles of small\\nrope were fastened at the ends of the coffin.\\nTo prepare the house for the service it was\\n232", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "THE HOUR OF SORROW\\ndeemed fitting to cover everything possible with\\nwhite linen. The mirrors and pictures were care-\\nfully shrouded, and the coffin itself usually\\nplaced on a long narrow table, that was covered\\nto the floor with a large sheet carefully pinned\\nat the corners.\\nA funeral was counted a much more im-\\nportant function than a wedding. It was a mat-\\nter of sentiment, lacking the mechanical effect\\nof modern days. Affection, respect, neig hbor-\\nliness and kinship brought all to the house\\nwho could reach it, and no one was too busy\\nto take time to bury the dead. The services were\\nalmost invariably held in the houses. The Par-\\nson was presented with a scarf of white linen\\nthree yards long, which, laid in folds, was worn\\nover the right shoulder, and often fastened there\\nand also where the ends crossed under the left\\narm, with rosettes of black crape. This was of\\nas fine linen as the family could afford, and was\\nof the right length to be converted into a shirt\\nwhich the Parson was expected to wear as a\\nmemorial. Mourning for the family, especially\\nfor the women, was of great importance, and\\nconventionalities could not be transgressed.\\n233", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nLittle Mary had been left at home till the day\\nof the funeral, and when she reached the old\\nhouse, the nervous but restrained child found\\nit strangely hushed. One and another en-\\ntering by this door and that, silently seated\\nthemselves in the chairs set against the\\nwall. The father took her little hand in\\nhis, and, leading her into the parlor, lifted the\\nchild that she might see the face from which\\nhe had thrown back the linen curtain. To her\\nit meant little. She had been told that her\\ngrandfather was dead, but the strange face she\\nsaw made no impression. She had never seen\\nher grandfather look like that, and it was only\\nin a bewildered way that she had any knowledge\\nof what it meant. So when she was seated by\\na window and saw men and women dismount\\nfrom the horses continually coming from up\\nand down the road, and old Jube and other\\nhelpful faands ready to aid, she found the out-\\nside world very interesting. Then all the people\\ncame in, and the hush was even greater while the\\ngood Parson, in his black gown, white bands,\\nand the white scarf, read the solemn service. The\\nsad farewells followed, and she saw some one\\n234", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "THE HOUR OF SORROW\\ncarefully lay the little white curtain in its place,\\nand turn back the hinged lid, making it secure.\\nA stir outside claimed her gaze, and she saw the\\nmen stepping back with bared heads, while four\\nof them carried the coffin out of t?he front door.\\nThe gate that opened to the road on a line with\\nthis door was narrower than that leading from\\nthe little stone path, and, as she looked, the\\nbearers turned the corner of the house, and\\nwalked, not on the narrow stones, but at each\\nside of them. Then, with a rush of feeling,\\nshe realized who was being carried out, that\\nthe dear grandfather was dead, and to be\\ndead meant to go away and never come\\nback, and that he would never again lead\\nher over the little stones. But dear old\\nMandy came and took the sobbing child away,\\nWhile outside the procession of two and two\\nformed. There were no hearses, and it was not\\nyet common to carry the dead in a farm-wagon.\\nThe coffin was placed on a bier and covered with\\na black pall. The people were mounted on sad-\\ndles and pillions in order of kinship, long stream-\\ners of black crape falling from the hats of the\\nmen, while the Parson, with his white scarf,\\n235", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nwent in advance on his own horse, and faithful\\nJube also mounted, led the other slaves who\\nwalked in the rear.\\nIt was no longer necessary to go to the\\nchurchyard in Ripton, White Hills having its\\nown burying-place two miles distant. Eight\\nbearers had been chosen, as relief would be\\nneeded for so long a distance, and before the\\nstart was made a bottle of orange-peel bitters\\nwas passed to the Parson, who, being refreshed\\nthereby, passed it to the bearers. Then four\\nof them lifted the bier till it rested on their\\nshoulders, and, with a quiet marching step,\\nthe journey began. When the bearers c hanged,\\nwhich meant also a passing from hand to hand\\nof the strengthening bitters, the relief stepped\\nin before the others, and, without breaking step,\\ntook the burden, while the weary men filed\\nout. For so long a march the change was made\\nseveral times ere the open grave was reached.\\nThe road lay through the wood and past\\nfamiliar fields, uphill and down. A sharp frost\\nhad loosened the hold of the bright autumn\\nleaves, and the maples and beeches mourning\\nthe loss of their old friend, cast a glowing carpet\\n236", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "THE HOUR OF SORROW\\nunder the feet of those carrying him to his rest-\\ning-place, while now and again the leaves, float-\\ning tenderly down from the tree-tops to rest on\\nthe pall, bore their message that for them also\\nhad come the hour of earth to earth.\\nThe grassy graveyard lying under the soft\\nOctober sky seemed to welcome this child of\\nearth, and, the bier being lowered, and the pall\\nremoved, dust was committed to dust, the sun-\\nlight glinting in the brass-nailed heart and let-\\nters as t hey disappeared below the line of the\\nturf. Before the Benediction the grave was\\nrilled, it being deemed indecorous not to wait\\nuntil that work was done, and then ere the Par-\\nson lifted his hand in blessing, he said: I am\\nrequested on behalf of the afflicted family to ex-\\ntend to all relatives and friends their sin-\\ncere thanks for your kind attentions during the\\nperiod of illness, your assistance at these last sad\\noffices for the dead, and your sympathy in this\\ntime of their deep bereavement.\\n237", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "XXVIII\\nTHE THIRD GENERATION\\nOther changes followed. It finally seemed\\nbest for the sake of the lonely widow that Glori-\\nana should take her place again in the old home,\\nand the family removed from Derby to the Hills.\\nLittle Mary, then seven years old, almost forgot\\nthat she had ever had another home. She loved\\nthe place, the free breezes that felt to her as if\\nthey came more directly from the upper blue\\nthan those of the valley, and she loved the long\\noutlines of hills, and that reach of vision that\\nseems to see far beyond its reality. The country\\nlife was full of joy; the road to the little school-\\nhouse was rich in treasures, blue violets, nodding\\ncolumbines, may-apples, wild strawberries, and\\ndropping nuts waiting but for her eager hand.\\nAnd there was a treat every summer when Queen\\nEsther s lilies were in bloom. The bed had\\n238", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "THE THIRD GENERATION\\ngrown larger and larger, crowding out much\\nelse, and the tall stalks were always setting\\nsums for her, counting, adding, and multiply-\\ning their quota of blossoms. It was a joy indeed\\nto carry home a stalk or two to put in a dark-blue\\nRebecca at the Well pitcher, in a sunny win-\\ndow, where she might watch the buds unfold,\\nwhile she asked, and heard again and again, how\\nthe great-grandmother Esther loved them and\\ntheir sunset tinging. Common as the lily had\\nbecome there was none from other gardens that\\nbore for her the same charm\\nLittle Mary loved nature, sky and tree and\\nflower; both the near and the distant horizons\\nhad always a message for her. She felt herself\\na part of it, not as an imaginative child would,\\nbut in a practical way; the flowers bloomed for\\nher pleasure, not to hide a fairy, and the sun-\\nbeams and breezes brought her a present joy\\nrather than a wondering of Whence? and\\nWhither? The other side of the hills did not\\ntrouble her if only the hither side were pleas-\\nurable.\\nShe was a very nervous child, reserved, cap-\\nable for her age, with keen perceptions and\\n239", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nindependent thought, but before and above all\\nelse unquestioning in her obedience and respect.\\nThe grandfather s place could not be filled;\\nyoung as she was, certain places were sacred to\\nhim, but her natural reserve prevented expres-\\nsion, save when climbing into his great chair,\\nshe leaned lovingly back in it as if still feeling\\nhis presence.\\nGrandmother Mary took the child more than\\never to her heart and companionship, and it\\nwas on a pillion behind the active old lady that\\nthe little maid went to church at Ripton, or as\\nan especial privilege to visit the old friend\\nHepzibah. Cousin Charity had gone from earth,\\nand Mary s world seemed to be growing old very\\nrapidly. Hepzibah herself was nearly fourscore,\\nand to practice the art she loved was now\\nbeyond her power. She still saw beauty\\neverywhere; in every cloud that floated above,\\nin every branch that waved below, in the\\nblue flags and bright cardinal flowers by\\nthe clear watercourses, in the yarrow that lifts\\nits little white parasol through all the summer,\\nand the deep purple aster telling that sum-\\nmer is gone; in the bare branches of the winter,\\n240", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "THE THIRD GENERATION\\nlifting pleading hands, or sweeping downward\\nwith the winds as if bearing the benediction they\\nhad sought from the upper air; all came into her\\nheart to find the same love and sympathy, but\\nwith sight dimmed and the touch of youth van-\\nished, she could no longer give them expres-\\nsion.\\nNearly three years after Daniel s death, and\\nwhen Queen Esther s lilies were in blossom,\\nthere came again to the old house the mysterious\\nmessage so full of sorrow and blessing. The\\nelastic energetic nature enjoying the rush\\nof life often fails to realize how shallow the\\nwater has become, or to feel the keel grating on\\nthe sand until the bow swings to the shore\\nand all is being made fast. So this life for\\nGrandmother Mary came to its close, and she\\nwho in her eightieth year did not hesitate to\\nsit in the saddle for a ten miles ride saw\\nnot how far into harbor she had floated, until\\nthe sails were lowered, and the voyage finished.\\nThere was then but faith to utter, and farewell\\nto say, with the blessing of a mother s undying\\nlove, and the house was filled with that myster-\\nious presence before which all earthly matters\\n241", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nfade, and that bears the visible onward to the\\ninvisible, from the joy that was, through the pain\\nof sorrow, to the rapture that shall be.\\nAgain the clan gathered, again little Mary,\\nnow with fuller realization, saw the bearers care-\\nfully carry their burden above the path of narrow\\nstones. Children and grandchildren, kindred\\nand friends, little Mary in her youth, and Hep-\\nzibah in her age, the old slaves loudly lamenting,\\nand the young colored people, though free still\\ngiving their allegiance, made a long procession\\nfollowing after bearers and Parson under the\\ngreen trees, and along the familiar winding\\nhighway, to the grassy graveyard already made\\nsacred to so many of the throng.\\nWhen the white headstone was in place it\\nbore testimony in its simple inscription to the\\nappreciation of her children for the love and de-\\nvotion of which they had never known lack:\\nShe was a kind and affectionate mother.\\nThus Gloriana and her own small family were\\nfinally left alone in t he great house with the re-\\nmaining colored members, who were a small\\nnumber also. During the preceding winter\\n242", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "THE THIRD GENERATION\\nboth Jube and Mandy had closed their eyes\\nto earth, and had been carried out over the\\nnarrow stones to the same enclosure where\\nlay the bodies of the master and mistress they\\nhad served so long and so faithfully. Samson\\nand Moll were old folks now. Roosh\\n(Jerusha), Gloriana s own handmaiden, and\\nPete, her husband, remained of the able-bodied.\\nBose, though not yet an old man, was more care\\nthan aid, for though obedient and devoted in\\nspirit his mind was ever under a cloud.\\n243", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "XXIX\\nGIRLHOOD AND ROMANCE\\nThe long years of life are those of childhood,\\nand the developing intellect might well count\\nthem so were it able to measure the store of\\nwealth attained. Even the limited district\\nschool of the upper hill country unfolded vast\\nriches to little Mary s search, but after a few\\nyears greater advantages were sought, and the\\nfamous school of Miss Pierce in Litchfield was\\nthe goal. At thirteen years old Mary could no\\nlonger be called little. She had grown so tall\\nthat her record of years was rarely credited by\\nthe stranger, especially as her mind also be-\\ntokened a longer period of growth. So she took\\na good place in the institution, when, having\\ntaken her there, her father left her to her first\\nindependent venture in life, with the admonition,\\nNever forget your accountability.\\n244", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "GIRLHOOD AND ROMANCE\\nShy, self-contained, and quiet, none realized\\nthe nature that the discipline of life was to de-\\nvelop later. But she made satisfactory progress\\nin her studies, and the tone of mind of the day\\nmay be understood from a letter written to hef\\nfather. Returning from school by stage-coach,\\nshe recorded her arrival at a friend s house in\\nNew Haven, where she was to await him. She\\nwrote that there had been ten passengers in the\\ncoach, all but two of them ladies, and that the\\ntedium of the journey had been relieved by the\\nladies taking turns in reading aloud an essay on\\ngood behavior! Later, at school, such questions\\nwere discussed as Which is the most destruc-\\ntive, War or Ardent Spirits? Does Man-\\nkind ever act but from selfish motives? which\\nmight now be considered advanced subjects for\\nminds of fourteen or fifteen years. The school\\nin Litchfield was supplemented by one in New\\nHaven, thus leading to new friendships nearer\\nhome.\\nAlthough legal majority was the same then\\nas now, the entrance into social life was much\\nearlier. A white crepe frock served for a ball-\\ndress in her fifteenth year, and there was eager-\\n245", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nness for the adornments that festivities demand.\\nGloriana was a woman of intelligence, strong\\ncharacter, and of more worldly wisdom than\\none would suppose could result from the com-\\nparative quiet and isolation of her life. She\\nwas a good judge of human nature, and, al-\\nthough all sorts and conditions of life had not\\npassed before her, she had keen insight and\\nready understanding of the differences in hu-\\nmanity. She was a wise counsellor, broad of\\nvision, and had learned to measure life s phases\\nnot with a yardstick, but with a plummet. That\\nher daughter should have full measure of the\\npleasures of life was her desire, and through\\nfriends and kindred the way was opened for a\\nwider experience than came to most of those\\nliving along the same lines. Mary had no pre-\\ntension to beauty or even prettiness; there was\\nbut the attraction of youth, with a well-trained\\nmind and a quick intelligence, behind a very\\nquiet demeanor. She was not seventeen, how-\\never, when the climax of her life was reached.\\nAt a ball in Ripton a young Southerner, then\\na student at Yale College, appeared, and divined\\nat once the hidden wealth of her nature. The\\n246", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "GIRLHOOD AND ROMANCE\\ncharm of his chivalric attention and entire de-\\nvotion made a deep impression, and she willingly\\nconsented to accept his escort for a ride the\\nfollowing day. He was an adept in the art of\\nflirting, while she, so reticent, was but a novice.\\nHis hasty offer of marriage she could hardly un-\\nderstand; she had not the courage to dismiss\\nhim entirely, but was unwilling to marry, as he\\ndesired, within a few months, when his college\\nlife should be finished. The more reserved\\nNorthern nature found the Southern ardor diffi-\\ncult to comprehend. She was coy and reticent,\\nunkind when he was kind, but hurt when he was\\nindifferent. She feared a hot love, soon cold,\\nand this lack of confidence finally caused separa-\\ntion, despite the heartache it brought to both.\\nHe returned to the South, and after three years\\nshe heard of his death; unhappiness had marked\\nhis life, and he died alone, a wanderer away from\\nfriend and kindred.\\nWith uncontrollable force the agony of her\\nlove overwhelmed her. What she had concealed\\nalmost from herself was now manifest. Life was\\nbut a dull, blank heartache, and the only grain\\nof comfort was in gazing from the southern\\n247", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nwindow, until, with a rush of feeling, she bent\\nher head to the window-sill to hide the flood of\\ntears. That this must not continue Gloriana\\nrealized. There was, therefore, a hurry of\\nstitches and fitting of garments, and against her\\nwill the girl must take her place and part in the\\ncoming commencement festivities at Yale.\\nForced thus to live outside of her grief, she sum-\\nmoned to her aid her own resources. The keen\\nwit inherited from her father, and a lively fancy\\nand laughing gayety heretofore shown but un-\\nder cover of reserve, were now brought to the\\nfront, and she seemed transformed. Almost at\\nonce she became a social power, attracting both\\nby her humor and sense of humor, as few can by\\npersonal beauty, and, burying under this light-\\nness the pain lying so deep, that for years she\\nnever mentioned the beloved name.\\nShe was always a welcome guest, and at this\\ntime she wrote of herself: I am just the same\\ntall, ill-looking girl as ever, gadding abroad the\\nwhole time in search of amusements.\\nIndulgent parents granted her all possible\\nopportunities for diversion, and watched the re-\\ncovery of balance with relief and satisfaction.\\n248", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "GIRLHOOD AND ROMANCE\\nOther swains hovered near; there was never\\nlack of gallant youth, some seeking only the\\npleasure of the hour, but the lovers of fun, of wit,\\nand even of satire found in the ill-looking\\ngirl a kindliness of nature, and a sympathy\\nwith suffering that forbade the wit that cut too\\nsharply, or the sarcasm that was malicious.\\nSome sought her for companion and friend,\\nwhile others, seeing still deeper, sought, though\\nvainly, for the gift of her life and love.\\nMusic had become a strong interest and love;\\ncorrespondence was ever a pleasure, the desire\\nfor self-improvement and to gain the power\\nof expressing myself on paper, to talk and write\\nwith sense and judgment, never slumbered.\\nShe was willing to study, to read the best\\nbooks, and accustom myself to reflect on the\\nsubject, to use perseverance, patience, and prac-\\ntice. Her correspondence reached as far as the\\nWest Indies; letters of confidence between girls\\nare always delightful; they were exchanged fre-\\nquently by private hand, and, as one of them\\nsaid, by mail when anything occurs that is\\nworth ten cents. When absent from home,\\ncommunication was as frequent as possible, and\\n249", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\na letter from her mother is called corn, wine,\\nand oil to my spirits.\\nJourneys were made, long for those days, and\\nthe city of New York with its bustle, always at-\\ntracted her. She had known it more or less,\\nsince when, a little child, she had gone down on\\nthe sloop, and on waking one morning in the\\nharbor, among the shipping, said, Oh, mother,\\nwhat a lot of dead trees! And as she enjoyed\\nits pleasures in her grown-up life, she said,\\nLarge cities throw away lots of small things\\nthat would furnish a country town with interest\\nand amusement forever.\\nWith all the love of change she wrote a\\nfriend, I think I shall find some satisfaction in\\nconversing with a purring cat, a good fire, a\\npiano-forte, or, in fact, reasonable creatures. I\\nhave good health, a snug house, parents that de-\\nlight to comfort me, while I undertake to make\\nall things pass pleasantly for them.\\n250", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "XXX\\nTHE AGED FRIEND\\nTo Hepzibah, the grandmother s old friend,\\na long life was granted. When she had reached\\nthe age of ninety-five her normal eyesight had\\nreturned, and she read without spectacles, and\\nwhen her eyes were tired she read in the dark,\\nrepeating what she knew. At this advanced age\\nshe declared, that if Watts Hymns were out\\nof print she could supply a new edition from\\nmemory, and that she could repeat hymns from\\nSunday morning till Saturday night. Her\\nmemory had always been remarkable, and she\\nhad not failed to cultivate it. A sermon\\ncould be repeated almost verbatim; the Bible was\\nso well known that without hesitation she could\\ngive chapter and verse at request. Paradise\\nLost, and other books she knew also by\\nheart, and her memory of events antedating and\\n251", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nconnected with the Revolution, brought to her\\nvisits from the antiquarians of the day. On the\\nsurrender of Burgoyne she had written a spirited\\npoem, and repeated it on request in 1823, saying\\nshe had never written it out but once, and that\\nover forty years previously.\\nThis second sight did not, however, continue\\nto the end. She became blind, and the long, long\\nyears had left many deep lines on her face. A\\ngreat-grandson was brought to see her, and she\\nmade him sit on the stool at her feet that she\\nmight pass her thin, trembling hands over the\\nyoung face, to see if he bore the beauty of her\\nhusband s family. And although she told a lit-\\ntle great-granddaughter the wonderful tale that\\nwhen she herself was but three years old and sit-\\nting on her grandfather s knee, she caught a\\nhumming-bird in her little hand as it was flying\\nnear, the child, unheeding the story, wept as she\\nsaw the wrinkled visage, and asked if, When\\nshe got to heaven, God would make her face\\nsmooth again.\\nGloriana, always remembering the long\\nfriendship between Hepzibah and her mother,\\nsought to take in some measure the latter s\\n252", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "THE AGED FRIEND\\nplace. When Hepzibah had passed her ninety-\\nseventh birthday, the end of this life for her\\nwas visibly near. Confined to her bed for a short\\ntime from weakness, and needing little care be-\\nyond a watchful love, the Bible, hymns, and Her-\\nvey s Meditations Among the Tombs, the\\nwhole of which she could repeat filled her\\nmind. Gloriana went to pass the night at her\\nbedside, to watch with her, as she could not\\nbe left alone, and this friendly help was needed.\\nShe sat, book in hand, near the light, an occa-\\nsional glance at the quiet sleeper being all that\\nwas necessary. Hepzibah waked once or twice,\\nspoke a word, and slept again, and Gloriana kept\\nher vigil, reading, but with watchful eye and ear.\\nShe had lifted her glance and seen the quiet\\nbreathing as undisturbed as usual; soon after\\nshe looked again, and the spirit had fled. Ninety-\\nseven years of this life ended as a leaf drops from\\na tree! One quiet instant of severance, and the\\nspirit was rendered up to the Giver; then the\\nbody, marked by the touch of time, but beautiful\\nin the holy serenity of death, was laid in its rest-\\ning-place.\\n253", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "XXXI\\nTHE CHANGING YEARS\\nMaterial life was verging to the great transi-\\ntion that has marked this century, and many\\nthings already common in the larger centres were\\nslowly reaching up to the hills. Carriages were\\nunknown there until about 1820. An ox-cart\\nor farm-wagon marked the limit of vehicles,\\nand when the first gig with its over-reaching\\nblack hood was driven through that country the\\nhorses and mules started in fright. But gigs and\\nchaises soon became common, and coaches fol-\\nlowed, though in a small community only one\\nor two might be owned, which were always bor-\\nrowed for the use of the chief mourners at all\\nfunerals of people in the owners grade of life.\\nTo the progressive mind a gig or chaise with\\nonly two wheels seemed a safe and natural evolu-\\ntion from the ox-cart, but a woman who was ex-\\npert in the art of balancing herself on a pillion,\\n254", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "THE CHANGING YEARS\\nno matter how rough the road or fractious the\\nhorse, often hesitated about surrendering her-\\nself to so complicated a possibility for mishap\\nas a four-wheeled structure. Courage grew\\nwith use, however, and the roads improved\\nunder the necessity that wheels created, and in\\ndue time the iron horse came within conven-\\nient reach of the hill-people.\\nThe tinder-box disappeared, as it was sup-\\nplanted by matches about 1830. As little by\\nlittle the hand-made fabrics gave way to the\\nmachine-made the spinning-wheel had rest.\\nThe old slaves, one by one, had passed\\nfrom the scene of their labors, and the\\nyounger generation, born in freedom and set-\\ntling in homes of their own, gave less and less\\ndomestic service. With these new conditions\\nthe hard time for the housewife began. There\\nwere fewer hands and feet to render service, life\\nwas becoming more exacting, more complex, the\\nrigors of climate were unchanged, while with\\neasier transit and more frequent communication\\nthe demands upon friendship, society, and hos-\\npitality increased. The traditions of an open\\nhouse could only be lived up to with difficulty.\\n255", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nThe foreign element had not yet lifted much of\\nthe burden that the negro had left on the white\\nhands unaccustomed to so much of the work.\\nThe conditions of life, changing so slowly that\\nthere had seemed to be no change, were verg-\\ning toward an upheaval. The old house, how-\\never, true to its traditions, altered but little.\\nNovelty has slight charm for those who cherish\\nevery tender association, and though the daugh-\\nter in her flittings might gather to herself such\\nmodern affairs as pleased her, the old people\\nfor they were growing old settled quietly in\\nthe accustomed place with that content that\\ncares not for variety, and clings lovingly to old\\nsurroundings.\\nAs the father neared his eightieth year he told\\nMary one day that he was going to Derby, but\\ndid not ask her to accompany him. On his re-\\nturn he said to her, privately:\\nMary, where do you think I went to-day?\\nI don t know, Pa.\\nI went to the old graveyard in Derby. You\\nknow your mother thinks there are no people in\\nthe world like her family, and she will want to\\nbe buried with them, but I like the old grave-\\n256", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "THE CHANGING YEARS\\nyard where my father and mother are buried,\\nand there s a fine old oak-tree on the knoll that\\nI ve always thought I d like to lie under. I\\nwent there to-day, and I m disappointed to find\\nthat another man has got in before me! But\\nthere is just room for me by my mother s\\nside, and though you needn t say anything to\\nyour mother about it now, that s where I want\\nto be buried.\\nAnd Mary said, Yes, Pa.\\nNot long after serious illness developed, and\\nthe devoted care of wife and daughter was sad-\\ndened by the advancing shadow. The man him-\\nself took a clear look at the situation, and the\\ndoctor being expected, called Mary to his bed-\\nside and bade her ask him to declare exactly the\\npatient s condition. Mary did so, and, after his\\ndeparture, with a torn heart returned to her\\nfather, who, at the first private opportunity, said,\\nMary, did you ask the doctor what I told you\\nto?\\nYes, Pa.\\nWhat did he say?\\nDo you want me to tell you just what he\\nsaid?\\n257", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nYes, Mary.\\nWell, he said he thought you would not live\\nmore than three or four days.\\nThat s exactly what I thought myself!\\nThe great change came, and the funeral pro-\\ncession wound down the steep hills and over\\nthe rivers to the grave chosen. Then the les-\\nsened household took up the duty of life, old yet\\nnew, with its shifted burden. Mary had reached\\nmiddle life, the able mother was nearing four-\\nscore. A violent illness seized her, from which\\nshe recovered physically, but the mental vigor\\nwas impaired, and Miss Mary, as she was\\nknown to most, found herself in reality the head\\nof the house, though she never suffered friend\\nor servant to regard that title as gone from the\\nvenerable mother. The weakening intellect, the\\nwavering memory that lasted but an instant, and\\nthen required a repetition of the information al-\\nready given, were met with a patience and\\nserenity, and with a spirit of reverent affection,\\nthat may well encircle as with a halo, the devoted\\ndaughter who rendered what was so difficult,\\nwith such unfaltering tenderness.\\nMiss Mary began keeping a journal, in a de-\\n258", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "THE CHANGING YEARS\\nsultory way at first, but as years passed it became\\na prominent factor in her life. As the mother s\\nmental power grew weaker and weaker, the care\\nrequired was more and more exacting. The old\\nretainers were all gone. New servants lacking\\ninterest, lacked patience, and the time came\\nwhen it was easier to assume all the labor of the\\nhouse than to reconcile and harmonize the un-\\ntrained mind with the feeble one. Guests for the\\nhour or day were still welcome, and the habit\\nof life gave always a gracious greeting from\\nher who no longer distinguished friend from\\nstranger. There arose, however, memories, or\\nat least suggestions, of the past, when she, as a\\nchild, went about the old home, and the younger\\nbrother was sought with hurrying tread, and\\na call of Victory! Victory!\\nNinety-one years of life were finished ere the\\nsoul of Gloriana was freed from the worn body,\\nand at last Miss Mary was alone. Though lonely\\nat heart, the familiar rooms hallowed by the\\nloves and lives of two generations were never\\nlonely to her, and after a lonp^ journeying that\\nthe prolonged care and devotion made desirable,\\nshe returned to her home with gladness and\\nsatisfaction.\\n259", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nThe division of her grandfather s broad lands\\nhad left but little inheritance from him beyond\\nthe house and its immediate surroundings. The\\ncare of many acres was not hers, and with such\\nassistance as was readily procured for weightier\\nlabors s he preferred to keep her solitude un-\\nbroken. Neighbors were nearer than formerly;\\nshe had learned to find the way out of any\\nlabyrinth, and also the art of readjustment,\\nwith a philosophy like her father s. Thus she\\nwrote in her journal: The world is full of\\nchanges, and we have only to brush them away\\nas fast as others come. This was in relation\\nto the external. Of what is deeper she wrote:\\nof her father He has been on my mind more\\nof late than usual, and I have talked of him a\\ngreat deal to friends. In his old age he almost\\nidolized me, and I was devoted to him and\\nadministered not only to his wants but to his\\npleasure. He was very indulgent to me, and\\nwe always harmonized. Of her mother, It\\nis four years to-day since my dear mother died.\\nI cannot realize it. I feel her presence at times\\nso closely that I almost expect to see her. It\\nis five years to-day since my mother died. I\\n260", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "THE CHANGING YEARS\\nthink of her more or less every day, and always\\nmiss her. No end of her handiwork is every-\\nwhere about the house that meets my sight con-\\ntinually, and what could I do without these\\ntreasures! I often dream of my mother; she\\nalways comes to my senses in a pleasant form,\\nsleeping or waking, she seems ever on my mind.\\nHow much I miss her, for the love and kindness\\nshe ever bore me. Even in her old age she was\\nmy counsellor and my friend as no other can\\never be. My house has lost its charm and has\\nbecome desolate. I have longed for my\\nmother s presence ever since she departed. She\\nwas my true and patient and sympathizing\\nfriend uninterruptedly, all the life we lived and\\nloved together. A long-waiting letter from a\\nfriend brings out this poor dear empty world\\nis to be journeyed through by so many winding\\nand rough roads that when I do not feel ham-\\nmered oat flat by the mallet of affliction or chis-\\neled to pieces by care, I shall never allow a letter\\nfrom you to remain unanswered so long again.\\n261", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "XXXII\\nAT HOME AND ABROAD\\nThe living alone in the old house became\\nmore and more satisfactory to Miss Mary. Vari-\\nous ventures were made for companionship with\\nthe younger generation, resulting always in\\nthankfulness when the continued presence of\\nsome one not entirely after her own mind came\\nto an end, and she wrote, I take a world of\\ncomfort all alone in my own house; nobody\\nmakes me afraid, even if they molest me in a gos-\\nsiping way.\\nIn fact, the disagreeable side of life came to be\\nthe interference of others with her own free\\nchoice. It is a marvel how many of my ac-\\nquaintance feel competent to give me advice un-\\nsought about my domestic affairs. I don t re-\\nmember when I was not subject to this indirect\\nfault-finding with my ways, and I have such a\\n262", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "AT HOME AND ABROAD\\ndecided weakness for liking my ways better than\\nthe ways of those who are so liberal with their\\nopinions. Staying in my own house in soli-\\ntary state is very pleasant to me, but worries my\\nneighbors.\\nThe love of travel became a ruling power, and,\\nher wheel of fortune not turning upward, choice\\nmust be made between that cause for expencU-\\nture and costly raiment, resulting in favor of the\\nformer. The elegancies of life appealed strongly\\nto Miss Mary. She was a welcome guest in\\nmany a great house, and no touch of splendor in\\nits appointment, or in the manner of life therein,\\nfailed of her thorough appreciation. All polite\\nattentions also were most acceptable to her,\\nand on the brink of a journey she felt she had\\nput through an eddy of still life, and now comes\\nthe crowded hour and a long day of reaction.\\nThe hum and stir of life in its politest form\\nwas most .attractive, and she liked to feel the\\nhurry of life that made her wish the days\\nforty-eight hours long, as life is short to accom-\\nplish what is thrown in one s way. The spell\\nof intellect and culture is always irresistible to\\nme, and there are a great many field-days\\n263", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nin society. The summer resorts of wealth and\\nfashion were an attraction ever beckoning her,\\nand for many years a season rarely passed that\\ndid not find her at one or more of the large ho-\\ntels frequented by people of culture and social\\nstanding, among whom she always found an im-\\nportant place. Many called her eccentric, and\\nshe bore out perfectly John Stuart Mill s We\\nfind eccentricity of character in proportion to\\nthat amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral\\ncourage possessed by the individual. Of her-\\nself in this respect she wrote in her journal, My\\nindividuality is so marked that, even if I am ever\\nso interesting, I am apt to be unfavorably criti-\\ncized by exceedingly proper persons, and a sta-\\nple of ridicule to those who busy themselves\\nwatching the eccentricities of others. Yet I\\nnever fail to receive the polite attention of the\\nmost distinguished, at resorts of any kind, when\\nI choose. It is pleasant to be praised, and no\\none is insensible to it; honest and deserved\\npraise, I mean. I loved the appreciation of my\\nparents in every stage of my life, and it had a\\ngood influence on me.\\nWit, originality, and a delight in uttering what\\n264", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "AT HOME AND ABROAD\\nwas unexpected from the spinster getting on\\nin years, and with a forbidding cast of counte-\\nnance, and in costumes that were often peculiar,\\nwere sure to make her a centre about which re-\\nvolved people of all ages. She loved to say the\\nword that was gratifying to hear, as well as that\\nthat amused. If I can catch the car I know\\nmy strength. I care nothing for the eye of a per-\\nson. I have small attractions for the eye. And\\nthis attention and admiration were her best tonic.\\nChange of company and change of place pro-\\nmote a vigorous circulation of spirits. At home\\nI encourage contentment by creating for myself\\nsimple tastes and honest occupation. No one\\nloves travelling more than I do, and to mingle\\nwith the world; it lights up my feelings and\\ntastes like a gleam of sunshine. My house is\\nvery pleasant to me, and it is the soundest judg-\\nment to remain in it; my love of travel overcomes\\neverything, and I am very uneasy to start off.\\nThe choice between travel and dress was early\\nmade, still the latter had some requirements.\\nI am taking a survey of my old-fashioned\\nwardrobe, and intend to try the effect of mod-\\nernizing it by way of economy, and see if I can-\\n265", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nnot throw over my equipment a savor and\\nsprinkling- of gentility. Fashion changes so\\noften now-a-days that it is a tremendous expense\\nof time and labor to keep up with it, conse-\\nquently, I make no pretence to do so let me\\ndress as I will and act as I please, other people s\\njudgment or opinions do not affect the peace of\\nmy life. I pursue my own way rejoicing, in-\\ndependent of censure, but gratified with ap-\\nplause, somewhat vain, but not very proud.\\nEnjoying the sparkle and glitter of life so\\nkeenly, not only did she never for a moment\\nhesitate to tell of my country life and simple\\nhabits, but home is home, and her journal\\ngives, Found my dear old home, homely to\\nthe eye in comparison to much of the elegance\\nI had seen away, but pleasanter to my soul than\\nany other spot my big chamber, clean bed,\\nold-fashioned furniture, is charming to my\\nsenses, and I said aloud to myself, It is good to\\nbe here. It seems as if I had been absent weeks\\nand weeks, and it is only ten days. I shall find\\nmuch to do in getting things regulated, the\\ngrass is overgrown in the yard, the garden looks\\nneglected, hops to pick, and the house to brush\\n266", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "AT HOME AND ABROAD\\nup generally, but I am glad I went! It is al-\\nways a broken day in coming home. I never\\nget settled down to anything in a steady man-\\nner. But few are situated as I am, opening an\\nunoccupied house whenever I return. The un-\\ncomfortableness lasts but a few hours, whereas\\nit would probably be greater and last longer if\\nI had left anybody in it during my absence. I\\nknow of no one that I can rely on to improve\\nmy condition, notwithstanding I am so often an-\\nnoyed by questions of Why don t you? and\\nI should think you would. The sense of\\nloneliness was, however, often felt: Is it be-\\ncause I am excited or fatigued that my mind\\ngoes back to other days so vividly at this time?\\nPerhaps it is the returning home and no one to\\ngreet or welcome me, as when my mother was\\nalive, and yet, after the experience of the past\\nten years, of a lonely house to open to my soli-\\ntary admittance, it could hardly have much in-\\nfluence now. At any rate, the remembrance is\\nfresher to-night than usual, of the cordial and\\npleasant habit my mother and myself always\\nindulged in on the return of whichever had been\\nabsent; to run hastily to the door or gate with\\n267", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nglad countenances and joyful demonstrations, to\\nmeet each other, or our friends, as might be.\\nWhen mother was very old she never forgot the\\nglad welcome, however forgetful in other things.\\nI have missed it in all these years, and love the\\ncustom so that I always carry it out in practice\\nat every opportunity, even when my affections\\nare not much enlisted.\\nMany warm and long-enduring friendships re-\\nsulted from the chance acquaintance of hotel\\nlife, and correspondence, and the making and\\nreceiving of visits, increased thereby. Miss\\nMary s power not only of analyzing character,\\nbut of lighting up the weaker points of humanity\\nwith a touch that gave spice to her letters, is\\nrarely equalled. has performed funeral\\nhonors to liberty by getting married. She\\nwas an intelligent whetstone to sharpen his fac-\\nulties upon. The composed air of a hus-\\nband. a tongue in his head, such an one\\nas was lost in the tower of Babel. Most people\\nhave the grace to hear themselves praised with\\nconsiderable resignation. is full of gos-\\nsip, itching ears make nimble tongues.\\nThere is a kind of zest in snubbing, but tattling\\n263", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "AT HOME AND ABROAD\\nis mean. I don t really suppose any of us are\\nexactly angels. It is said men don t care for\\nmoney as much as women do: I have noticed\\nthat men love a beautiful woman, but adore the\\nriches of a homely one. Where do gentle-\\nmen always hide in hotels, I wonder! Men\\ndon t make idols of old ladies. We harmonize\\nand knit ourselves together so nicely.\\nour feelings are somewhat askew. Some\\ndote on old houses, old wine, old trees, old cus-\\ntoms, old pictures, but forget the old woman.\\nIn her journal she described Eyes that peered\\neverywhere, and ears that listened to everything.\\nHer thin lips were puckered up tightly; such\\nretention, however, only took place when she\\nwas called to praise a friend. To administer a\\ndose of bitters she gave fluent utterance and a\\nwide vocabulary. She has a sharp nose, sharp\\nchin, sharp elbows, and a very sharp tongue.\\nAnother phase of society entertainments\\nwhether near or afar, claimed her interest and\\npresence. I love these musters at home and\\nabroad, and, in my day and generation, have\\nvibrated through a great number. I occa-\\nsionally join the gay circles, taking into consid-\\n269", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\neration the expediency of airing my manners,\\nto make sure that I am modern and extant!\\nAfter a large wedding: I enjoy these occasions\\neven better than when I was young. The\\nepisodes of earlier dates are gradually fading\\nfrom my thoughts. I have so much to occupy\\nmy attention now, and receive so much attention\\nfrom society and even the notabilities of the\\npresent day, that I don t need to fall back on the\\npast. I have found my place, and have learned\\nto fill it. Most maiden ladies give up these\\nthings and settle down, forgotten except in their\\nfamily circle and neighborhood. Invitations\\nkeep my feelings fresh and afford me pleasant\\nintercourse in society, that interferes with no\\none s rights or privileges. Trimmed my bor-\\nders and cut my grass this morning, trimmed\\nmyself in my royal robes this afternoon, and\\nmade calls. I like sociability. I like to be\\nsocial, even if sometimes a flash of wit, a little\\nwisdom, and no end of silly speeches escape me.\\nOne who added so much to the entertainment of\\nothers was naturally in demand, and, even when\\nthe tale of years neared threescore and ten, there\\nwas no lack in the desire for her presence. All\\n270", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "AT HOME AND ABROAD\\nmusters, however, did not give equal pleas-\\nure, and some were declined. Although I mix\\nbut little with the multitudes just now I am by\\nno means asleep in my mind s eye. Amuse-\\nments of a certain kind are rife, but turn out\\nlight and of poor quality gossip dull even\\namong speculators! I don t think gossiping\\nthe highest wisdom; it animates us to sundry\\nskirmishes and small warfares.\\nGuests were always welcomed with rare\\nheartiness, and, even though the guests con-\\nvenience might be her great inconvenience, the\\ntraditions of hospitality were never transgressed.\\nThe Lord sustain me with Mrs. s children\\namong my peach-trees. How I dread their rav-\\nages and waste. After a visit that had been full\\nof delight in the companionship of old friends\\nwho left her on Saturday morning: The\\nK s have gone and I have toiled through\\nthe day in putting my house in order. I am\\ndreadfully fatigued, but could not endure a rest\\nwith every room in disorder however; chaos\\nover Sunday is not according to Scripture;\\nand, as the wear of life made effort of any kind\\nmore wearisome, it was recorded; The mo-\\n271", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nnotony of my life is really pleasant to me; and,\\nhaven t lifted up my voice to sound this day,\\nbut have had a great circulation of thoughts.\\nSpeech, however, from herself or others gave\\nthe charm to life, as, after quoting in her jour-\\nnal: The sweetest string of the great harp of\\nmingled harmonies is the human voice, she\\nadded, The whispering winds, the melodious\\nbirds, and gushing water are all that very re-\\nsponsible poets have claimed; nevertheless, my\\nvote goes in favor of social qualities that belong\\nto the human species, and, regarding speaking\\nfrom feeling, while Gloriana wrote: I can t al-\\nways keep it in, I shall speak when it comes\\nhandy; the daughter felt, there is a fascina-\\ntion in speaking your mind that almost recon-\\nciles one to reproof.\\nWith all her interest in the human species,\\nnature, in all its phases, appealed to her; the\\nweather, sparkling with sunshine; heard\\nthe notes of a robin for the first time this sea-\\nson; the dawn of a fragrant summer morn-\\ning; even biddies (chickens), with whom\\nshe loved to cultivate an intimacy like per-\\nsons, they are flattered by attention and kind-\\n272", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "AT HOME AND ABROAD\\nness. The trees are behind time in their\\nbudding interests, notwithstanding the cour-\\nageous example of the little crocuses. What\\ncharming weather, and how beautiful this world\\nlooks to human eyes, the flowers, the foliage,\\nthe grass (jolly blades that drink the dew of\\nheaven!) I rise early and go out to salute\\nthe green grass with a rapture little known to\\ncity ladies. We went down to the shore and\\nwatched the swelling waves and saw how pa-\\ntiently the brave old Ocean repeats itself for\\never and ever. There is always a cheerfulness\\nin snow-storms to me, notwithstanding the labor\\nand inconvenience they put me to usually. I sit\\nquietly in my chamber most of the day and say,\\n1 let it snow; and, when the snow was not\\ncrusty, making the effort too great, she cleared\\nher own paths from preference, as the work\\nhas charms for me. Her heart responded to\\nthe world of matter, as it did to the world of\\nfeeling. The world we live in has always ap-\\npeared full of beautiful sights, and a complete\\ntreasure-house of loveliness and melody; and,\\nunder all circumstances, she found, Fresh air,\\n273", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nand owing no one a shilling, is quite invigorat-\\ning!\\nLife held its charm. This is a beautiful\\nworjd, and I want to stay in it a long time.\\nI have comfortable fixings as to furniture,\\nold-fashioned in this day and time, not costly or\\ngrand, but very pleasant to me. I hope I may live\\nlong to enjoy it. I sit up late and read with\\ngreat enjoyment. The periodicals of the day and\\ngood books of various kinds were always at hand,\\nsuggesting often pithy sentences written in let-\\nters or journal: Alluding to fashions, the New\\nYork Herald says In some styles there is no\\nchange. Poor relations will be cut the same as\\nlast year! I read in a scientific work not\\nlong ago that human elements consist of four\\nsubstances, representing the familiar names of\\nfire, water, salt-peter, and charcoal. Of such is\\nman, the Lord of the whole Earth! Iron is\\nfound in blood, phosphorus in the brain, lime in\\nthe bones, and dust and ashes in all. The Bible\\nwas read through yearly for many years: the\\nlaw compels, the gospel charms.\\nThe ability to cast a charm over the most\\nordinary and matter-of-fact occupations was\\n274", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "AT HOME AND ABROAD\\nmarked and continual. Made a great display\\non the clothes-line this morning. How avail-\\nable I can make myself! how proud I am of my\\ncapacity for doing so! health and resolution can\\neffect wonders. I have both at the present time,\\nfor which I am thankful. My head is full of\\nnotions and my hands full of work; my feet run\\nhither and thither a considerable part of the\\nday world without end (I wish I could say\\nAmen and make a respectable finish of it).\\nI daily wield the hand of the diligent, and con-\\nsiderable economy is thrown in, and I say to\\nmyself, Is woman s work ever done? When\\nalone I am in the domestic harness till quite in\\nthe afternoon, and, if I have company, I am\\nnever out of it. Some spiteful critter said\\nwomen have very few reserves, and always tell\\nall they know, and wonders that it takes them so\\nlong. I daresay he was served as I lately served\\na biped who took aim at me. But I am not\\nafraid! I can stand shot first rate have smelt\\npowder too often. I shall begin to number my\\nslain before long, if only to prove my discretion\\nand show my valor.\\n275", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "XXXIII\\nNOT A GRIM OLD MAID\\nThrough all the long life the love of her\\nyouth remained a potent factor. Far away as\\nit seemed at times, it made marriage always im-\\npossible, a desirable match merely, having no\\nattraction. Miss Mary wrote in her journal:\\nI remember a yout hful lover who died and left\\nme. No one else has ever filled the void. After\\nfifty years I remember him pleasantly. If he had\\nlived and I had had more experience, would he\\nhave been my chosen before all the world? My\\nyouthful days and middle life might possibly\\nhave been pleasanter, but I feel sure I could not\\npossibly be so full of contentment as I am now\\nin my single state, free from anxiety and weighty\\ncares, arising from family duties in married life.\\nSlurs at old maids she might meet with com-\\nposure, but I never rail at matrimony, and yet\\n276", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "NOT A GRIM OLD MAID\\nfortunately never ridiculed old maids; the one\\nI consider a wise institution, while the other\\nmay have just a sprinkling- of peculiarities\\nthat the eye of a noble-hearted woman might\\nwince at, rather than despise, and I have come\\nto the conclusion that disagreeable people will\\nbe disagreeable, married or single. What a\\nquiet and peaceful life is the allotment of an old\\nmaid, if she can only be contented with it. Why\\nis so much antagonism and ill-nature manifested\\ntoward them generally? Young and old often\\nspeak of them with reproach. The love of order\\nin them is ridiculed, and neatness is called one\\nof their striking peculiarities. The path I have\\ntrotted in I have found very pleasant, and\\nam not in the least timid in encountering preju-\\ndices against maiden ladies. By accident I\\nhave escaped the sorrows of widowhood, and the\\nlonely years and regret of a maiden lady are not\\nmy experience as yet, tho I am somewhat ex-\\nposed to them. It is not the widows that are\\nexclusively sought for, even the old maids are\\nsometimes wooed and all that, for here is the\\nwriter of these pages just passing through the\\nordeal, unscathed to be sure! I have hitherto\\n277", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nfound the path of an old maid pleasant to walk\\nin. I think I will continue the journey therein.\\nThrough the many years since the great heart-\\nache of her youth, there had been frequent and\\nadvantageous opportunities for marriage. The\\nattraction of her individuality was great, to some\\nthe snug old house, and small but comfortable\\nincome added a charm! Her experience proved\\nto her that it is a woman s own fault if her\\nlast chance for marriage ever comes; there are\\nalways men of all ages wanting wives; and she\\ncould write with authority on the matter!\\nCousin s letter suggests as a hus-\\nband, he having made some overtures to that\\neffect. He condescends to think I would share\\nhis diet, and attend to his bodily wants, and,\\nperhaps, jump at the chance. I don t feel called\\nupon to display much activity in the matter!\\nAnother bearer of preliminaries made her\\nfriend s request, with the inducement he had\\nsuggested, that he had a new purple merino\\ndress that had belonged to his first wife, and\\nhad never been worn but once that he would\\ngive her if she would marry him Another aspir-\\ning widower also of a plain grade of life, living\\n278", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "NOT A GRIM OLD MAID\\nnear, made an early call, appearing at her\\nkitchen-door. After entering, and uttering\\na few ordinary civilities, he arose, and, with\\nsome embarrassment, began walking around the\\nkitchen-table, saying she seemed to be a very\\ngood housekeeper, and finally asked if she were\\na good cook. He was dismissed with the reply,\\nIf you want to match your cooking-stove you\\nhad better marry a colored woman!\\nThere was always a dash of amusement in mar-\\nriage possibilities. Mr. a rich widower!\\nHad I better be nimble around him, or is there\\na fatality in belonging to his household! Two\\nhave died out of it suddenly within a year. What\\nif lie should be called away and the chance of\\nbeing a rich widow be lost on me! It is a\\nfearful thing to consider. If I take him I shall\\nshut my eyes to the consequences. My con-\\nscience would be easier to take no advantage of\\nthe opportunity. Lotteries in this state are\\nillegal. Marriages are said to be lotteries,\\ntherefore, are marriages illegal, I wonder!\\nBeginning a new volume of the journal she\\nwrote: Years ago I laughed at the idea of\\nkeeping a journal; perhaps it would be no lack\\n279", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nof wisdom if I adhered to that resolution unto\\nthis day. I have very little to record but petty\\nevents. I had more material in early life, tho\\nI probably should have run to sentimentality. I\\ndon t think I knew much about myself really in\\nthose visionary days. I had my romance, and\\nwas disappointed. I am more contented with a\\ndull reality, mete out self-discipline, and am dis-\\nenchanted of many hopes and perplexities that\\novercame me when young. I view things in a\\ntruer light, and have an increase of stability, and\\nmore self-reliance, tho I don t escape schisms\\nand all those things pertaining to the flesh, but\\nendure them with great fortitude. I am quite\\nalone in the world as far as dependence and lean-\\ning on another go.\\nFor sentiment in others, Miss Mary had al-\\nways a keen intuition as well as a real sympa-\\nthy. The true single woman who bears ever\\nin her heart a grave, bound about by vines of re-\\nmembrance, whose flowers never fade and whose\\nleaf withereth not, has even more sympathy\\nwith the love-affairs of others than the happy\\nmarried woman who has realized her dreams;\\nsympathy, however much it may be fostered by\\n280", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "NOT A GRIM OLD MAID\\nkindness and interest, being the true child of\\nsuffering. The confidences of younger people\\nwere invited and acceptable, for she deemed it\\ngood to keep our sympathies enlarged and ex-\\ntended beyond ourselves, the secret is, being\\naccessible to others. Youth always attracted\\nher; to keep the young side to the front was\\none of her rules of life, even if she wrote, Old\\nage don t look so grim as it did awhile ago.\\nThe grace of life was still to be cultivated; An\\nold maid occupying her house alone is solitary\\nas any single woman s house is, but need not\\nbe the less cheerful; I am a single woman,\\nbut I am sure I am not classified as a Grim Old\\nMaid; and it was gratifying to record Some-\\nbody said I was witty and plain; and that age\\nhad given my homely face a charm; on a\\nbirthday s he wrote, My years accumulate, and\\neven the mirror don t frighten me.\\nA birthday never passed unnoticed in the\\njournal. To-day is my birthday. I have spent\\nit alone and pleasantly, and without sin, as far as\\ncommitting sin goes; the omission a sin may\\nfind me there! Is there anybody that does not\\nomit to do good? It is much not to do and think\\n281", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nevil, on that I have built my structure to-day.\\nOne day! I have never in my thoughtlessness\\nwatched myself all day before. He who neither\\nslumbers nor sleeps knoweth, and may He\\nguard and protect me in the right way.\\nThe passing years, running up such a long\\nrecord against her told but little on the mode\\nof life. The interest in all younger life remained,\\nand the desire to have a part in it, to keep\\nmodern and extant, even though the realiza-\\ntion of what could not be far off was felt.\\nTable and hearth have no occupant but myself\\nno hurry, very little work and care; my house\\nis clean and still, nothing disturbed or out of\\nplace, and these quiet times in my own house\\nsuit me exactly and Somebody s growing old!\\nthat tells the story; and Somebody must bestir\\nthemselves if Somebody means to travel; for old\\nage best enjoys home comforts, and strange\\nplaces and strange people have no charms in\\ncomparison. I am so thankful the seclusion is\\nnot gloomy to me. Read a story, The Gen-\\ntleman s Picnic, to-night, and have not had such\\na spontaneous laugh in twenty years. I have\\noften thought that kind of laugh had all died out\\n282", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "NOT A GRIM OLD MAID\\nof me. I am glad of any youthful emotion.\\nMy old home is the dearest of all places to me\\nmy joys and sorrows and most of my life have\\nbeen spent under its roof, and its sun, if not high,\\nis yet warm in the sober afternoon. I am\\nover 80 years in my journey thro life. I have\\nbeen much alone. I don t mind being alone, as\\nmany persons do, and for many years there has\\nbeen a kind of necessity for this condition. I\\nam not timid, in illness I have ministrations from\\nnurses, doctors, and also of servants in com-\\nfortable health I am good company to myself,\\nand don t feel the loneliness that an unsocial\\ncompanion s presence gives me.\\nThe solitude, however, could not continue.\\nSoon after this writing, an incautious step on\\nsnow-covered ice caused a fall and injury that\\nconfined her to her bed for weeks, and from\\nwhich she rose to move only with the aid of\\ncrutches. The day following the accident a\\nfriendly visitor found her patient, cheerful, and\\nresigned, with that philosophy that marked her\\nmanner of meeting the changes of life. Here\\nI am flat on my back, with a weight on my leg,\\nand can t stir hand or foot, and I lie here think-\\n283", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\ning how much I have to be thankful for. I m\\nthankful it happened at home so that I have not\\ngot to be carried here; I m thankful I am not a\\npoor woman dependent upon my daily work for\\nmy daily bread, and that I can afford to pay for\\nall the care and attention I need; I m thankful\\nto have found some one at once to come and\\ntake care of me, and then I m thankful that it is\\nmy leg and not my neck! When able to sit\\nup, the journal was again taken up. My\\nbroken leg has made me feel that I may as well\\ngive up and tune my pipes to lamentations. I\\ndon t think it unreasonable to desire the use of\\nmy limbs. I consider the world very beautiful,\\nand life full of blessings, only some come to us\\nin disguise, we are told. God moves in a\\nmysterious way, as is verified in my case, and\\nmade a cripple of me that I might understand\\nthat I am an old woman, and ought to conform\\nto the usages of people of my years, and retire\\nfrom the gay and festive scenes that hitherto I\\nhave enjoyed so much. At times the great\\nfuture seemed near: Who knows the future?\\nShall we recognize and be recognized? I have\\nthought if I go to a better world I should like\\n284", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "NOT A GRIM OLD MAID\\nto see Solomon; he has been purified doubtless\\nwithout losing his wisdom. And as eternity is\\nlong, perhaps Adam, our dear, old hen-pecked\\nfather, migiit in time claim me in his effort to\\ncall together his extended family circle. I love\\na crowd! and think I should enjoy seeing all\\nmy relations; but I thank God for the memories\\nof the life that is past, for the good in the life\\nthat now is, and for the hope of the life that is\\nto come.\\nA dullness of hearing marred the pleasure of\\nliving as these years of lameness continued, but\\nthere was ever the strong love of life, and that\\nreadjustment to altered conditions that was\\ncharacteristic. Life is quite a study and far\\nmore difficult than the lessons of a school-room.\\nMy infirmities are to remind me of the woes of\\nlife mingled with its blessings. I miss my hear-\\ning ears and seek atonement in my wonderful\\nseeing eyes. Nothing more forcibly expressed\\none of the ruling principles of her life than the\\nwords, We don t exactly elect our destiny, but\\nwe can mar it by our misconduct.\\n285", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "XXXIV\\nTHE REMINISCENT YEARS\\nDuring the crippled years it was a severe trial\\nto Miss Mary to be unable to go freely about her\\nown house, and to be obliged to depend upon\\nthe service of others. She had always chosen\\nan upper room that had been her mother s,\\nwhere in young maidenhood the mother had\\nsat at the western window embroidering. Miss\\nMary had loved the same seat and out-\\nlook as she wrought intricate lace-stitches or\\nsprigged the fine white mull for gown or\\napron, thinking the while those thoughts too\\nprecious to utter, or weighing lighter matters.\\nHer strong determination now enabled her to\\ndescend the staircase, and, with the aid of\\ncrutdhes, to walk about her garden and door-\\nyards. The flowers and plants welcomed her,\\nand she saluted them in her own fashion.\\n286", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "THE REMINISCENT YEARS\\nThe young shoots forever springing up around\\nthe old lilac-bushes were like the ever-young\\nfeelings in her own heart, and the raspberry bush\\nby the butt ry door, replacing the one from\\nwhich her baby hands had loved to pick the lit-\\ntle black thimbles, spoke to her of the long past\\nyears. The lily-bed at Queen Esther s was be-\\nyond her reach, but with her mind s eye she\\ncould see it as the breeze swept the curving\\ngreen leaves till it seemed a little lake in the\\ngrass.\\nAll the familiar stretdh of vision was so dear!\\nShe could still see, in thought, the whole place\\nas it was in her youth, ere the end-kitchen and\\nvarious other buildings were removed, and when\\nthe slaves still went in and out of the open door.\\nOnly one trace of them remained; the back\\ndoor-stone was so worn by their shuffling tread\\nthat the hollow thus made would hold a full pail\\nof water!\\nOver the path of narrow stones she made her\\npilgrimage. Back and forth on them she passed,\\nas, when a little girl, s he learned to use t he power\\nnow weakened and maimed. These stones were\\nfull of messages. She had often wondered why\\n287", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nthey were so narrow. Surely when they were laid\\nthere was land enough, and stones enough, and\\ntime enough! Now she had come to think of\\nt hem as leading to the narrow house where so\\nmany, one by one, had been borne, and toward\\nwhich she looked with unfaltering gaze.\\nFive crippled years passed. The cheerful\\nspirit rarely flagged, nor did patience tarry, al-\\nthough privations increased. A duller hearing,\\nand, finally, the loss of acute vision debarring\\nher from the books that had been the chief solace\\nand companions of her solitude, took from life its\\ncharm. Then, and not till then, did she wish\\nto resign it.\\nMiss Mary made every provision for the im-\\nmediate necessities that would follow her death.\\nDuring the long life there had been several\\nsevere illnesses, and, like her father, she had\\nalways faced death with peculiar calmness\\nand as a matter of course. A few months\\nbefore death came, realizing that strength was\\nfailing, she sent for a neighbor whom she told\\nthat she thought her life was near its end, and\\narranged that this neighbor, who had prepared\\nher mother for burial, should perform the same\\n288", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "THE REMINISCENT YEARS\\noffice for her. For that service she had received\\na certain sum of money; for this one she was to\\nbe likewise compensated. Miss Mary directed\\nin what garments she should be clothed, desired\\nthat no one should look on her face after death,\\nthat no flowers be put about her or on her coffin,\\nand that she should be carried over the same nar-\\nrow stones that marked the path of her baby\\nfeet, and that were hallowed by the lives and\\ndeaths of those dear ones who had been carried\\nout before her.\\nA gold piece was laid in the upper drawer of\\nthe bureau near her bed, to be ready for the\\nclergyman who should officiate at her funeral,\\nas, to her mind, the distance from which he must\\ncome merited recognition. Provision was also\\nmade in her will for the perpetual care of her\\ngrave and of the graves of the others dear to her.\\nShe owed no one anything, and her mind\\nwas at rest about all worldly affairs. Debarred\\nthe comfort of reading, and with feebleness and\\nsuffering increasing, life was no more of\\nvalue; the release that came ere the dawn of a\\nThanksgiving morning was longed for, and the\\nglad spirit fled to its Maker, and to the joyful re-\\nunion with those lost awhile.\\n269", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nFaithful hands had ministered to all the needs;\\nloving care had surrounded her; the dearest of\\nkindred had comforted her seclusion and\\nbrought cheer to dark days; all that remained\\nto be done was to carry out her last wishes.\\nThe Judge of Probate said Miss Mary s will\\nwas long enough to go round a barn! The\\nmaking of wills had been almost a hobby with\\nher. Inheriting a tract of land from her grand-\\nmother, she had waited anxiously for her\\neighteenth birthday in order to make testamen-\\ntary disposal of it. After the death of her father,\\nshe being then about forty years of age, another\\nwill was naturally necessary, and on inherit-\\ning her mother s estate, still another. Under\\nfriendly guidance she had learned to draw the\\nimportant document herself, and this third will\\ncame to be a great one, bearing codicil after\\ncodicil, as she outlived one and another therein\\nremembered. Finally, after twenty-eight had\\ndied among the kindred, friends, old servants,\\nand various pensioners mentioned, the time for\\nthe last will came. It was but a year or two\\nbefore her death, and the writing of it was a\\ngreat excitement. Following the lines long laid\\n290", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "THE REMINISCENT YEARS\\ndown, the land that had come to her through\\nthe female line must go to that cousin of a\\nyounger generation who would so pass it on.\\nWhatever came from her father must go to those\\nof his line and name, and the possessions of her\\nmother to her most immediate kin, or to those\\nbearing the well-loved maiden name. Silver,\\nfurniture, jewellery, ornaments, books, pictures,\\nthe fine counterpanes the mother had prized, the\\nlace veil embroidered by Miss Mary in her youth,\\nthe famous tea-set, the rare old glasses, money\\nat interest, stocks, house, and lands, all were\\ndesignated, leaving the executor s task singu-\\nlarly free from pitfalls.\\n291", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "XXXV.\\nTHE DEATH OF THE HOUSE\\nAt last the old house was empty and desolate,\\nand, like its mistress, it gently lost its hold on life.\\nThere was no longer a hand to lift a latch, a foot\\nto rest on the hearthstone, or a face to look forth\\nfrom a lattice. The old walls that during the\\nlong, long years since the tool of the builder left\\nthem had garnered their treasures, now, like the\\nfading memories of old people, were losing their\\npower of bestowal. All that lay in their hidden\\nrecord, the faces they knew and loved, the voices\\nthat made them glad; the joy of bride and bride-\\ngroom, welcomed there in their youth; the first\\ncry of the newly born; the words of love, of\\ncounsel, of direction from parents to children;\\nthe lover s entreaty and the maiden s whisper;\\nthe husky voice of age, that having fought a\\ngood fight and kept the faith, surrendered the\\n292", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "THE DEATH OF THE HOUSE\\nsoul to its Maker, all these, and more, the walls\\nenshrined. The children of sunnier skies and a\\nfar-off land, stolen, sold into bondage, had here a\\nrefuge mid brethren of their tribe born under\\nthe shelter of the home. And while seven strong\\nsons had passed out to lift their own roof-trees\\na-near, and twice a stranger had come to lead a\\nhappy bride across the threshold, there had been\\nsadder departures, as, one by one, loved and fa-\\nmiliar forms were carried out of the wide door,\\nand over the path of narrow stones, to burial.\\nThe old heart had borne its sorrows nobly,\\nand who could wonder that the echoing walls\\nfinally gave but a dull sound and that the tale they\\ntried to tell lacked coherence! The outer walls,\\ngrown gray with years, might attract those who\\nloved them for their signs, but at the best, the\\nstory could be but partly told, however keen\\nthe ear that listened, or the instinct that sought\\nto supply the lost chords. Was it not in mercy\\nthat, like the sweep of the wing of the death-\\nangel, came the blast that left to mortal senses\\nonly a stilled heart and dissolution?\\nThe walls of Queen Esther s little home still\\nstand under the shadow of the old oak-tree and\\n293", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "THE SALT-BOX HOUSE\\nyounger maples. Every summer the white stars\\nof Bethlehem group themselves in constellations\\nacross the stretch of meadow, and the live-for-\\never shines above the grass, while the great lake\\nof lily-leaves ripples in the breeze, and the tall\\nflower-stalks, raising their flaming banners,\\nstand like sentinels around its border challeng-\\ning an intruding foot.\\nAnd year by year the greater ruin keeps its\\nanniversaries. Spring after spring the warm\\nsunbeams brighten it, and the first blue-bird,\\nwith picturesque instinct, rests on the silvery\\nmoss-covered ghost of a cherry-tree. Later, the\\nrobins nest again in the dear old places, and\\norioles flash in and out of the dark hemlock\\nbranches. June after June the rose-bushes that\\nare fast encircling the house unveil their tender\\nbeauties, that bow before the breeze only to bend\\nback their bright young faces with a caressing\\ntouch against the old gray walls, comforting\\nthem as the kisses of a child always comfort the\\nsilver-haired. Summer after summer the great\\nraspberry-bush by the butt ry door tells of the\\nlong-time hospitality, reaching out to the lover\\nof the past its slender arms tipped with luscious\\n294", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "THE DEATH OF THE HOUSE\\nclusters. Harvest after harvest the ripe timothy\\nfills the air with its fragrance as it lies in long\\nswaths before the gathering.\\nAnd Nature is claiming her own. The great\\nbeams that she fostered in their slender youth\\nand beauty, and endowed with power and might\\nin their maturity, bend more and more toward\\nher loving breast. She has called the woodbines\\nto come and clasp the fallen stones with their\\nshining tendrils and cover with a new life that\\nold heart. The winds pause to sing fheir lulla-\\nbies and dirges, the snow wreathes every ledge\\nand lintel and her white hand lingers tenderly\\non the wreck. The rains beat upon it, as they do\\non the graves in the distant burying-place, and\\nlike them, the old house sinks more and more\\ninto the lap of Earth, while the moss thickens\\non the low picket-fence, and the grass crowds\\nover the edges of the narrow stones that lead up\\nto the faded green door.\\n295", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\nPage 68.\\nHousehold Goods for the Setting-out of a\\nBride, 1758.\\ns. d.\\n1 Crimson Harrateen Couch 2 12 20\\n3 Looking Glasses 13 9 4\\n6 Large Table-Spoons 5 2 o\\n6 Tea Spoons pair Tea-Tongs. 1 18 11\\n12 Pewter Plates 12 9\\n1 Doz. Large Ditto 16 4\\n1 Doz. Large Hardmettle Ditto 160\\n1 Gallon Bason 7 o\\n3 Three Pint Ditto 5 2\\n5 Quart Ditto 8 9\\n3 Porringers 4 o\\n3 Large Ditto 4 6\\n1 London Quart Pott 3 3\\n1 Point Can 3 o\\n12 Platters 39 lbs., is. 7d 2 10 8\\n3 Brass Kittles 8 1 o\\n1 Silver Tankard 14 o o\\n1 Cream Pott 2 15 o\\ns. d.\\nOld Tenor 55 I 4\\n55 1 4\\nIn Colonial Money j 550 13 4\\n1 Fraim of a Couch 13 6\\n297", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\ns.\\n2 Chests of Draws 75\\n1 Dressing Table 12\\n1 Pier-Foot Round Table 12\\n1 Four-Foot Ditto 8\\n1 Tea Ditto 8\\n1 Kitchen Ditto 210\\n1 Collard (colored?) Ditto 3 10\\nI Stand 2\\n1 Small Table 3\\n3 J Dozen Chairs 88\\n4 Feather Beds bolsters pillows 134\\n12 Pair pillibear cases (5 of them\\nHolland 10\\n10 Pair sheets (2 of them Holland 8\\nHollan for curtins counterpins. 30\\n20 yards blanketing 20\\n3 coverlids costly ones 32\\n2 coverlids 12\\n2 pieces calico 67\\nOutside 1 quilt 7\\nOutside lining Quilting 2 bed\\nquilts 15 4\\n24 yards tow-cloth for under beds.. 12\\n12 yards Diaper 12\\n12 yards huckabuck 12\\n6 yds. tow-cloth 3\\n2 Table-cloths, 9 yards 20s 9\\n14 yards Diaper 20s. pr yard 14\\n14s. 4 4\\n8 yards cloth for table towels 4\\nchinch for curtins, 8 yards 15 4\\nmuslin for lining 4 10\\n1 Set Cheaney Tea-Dishes 3 8\\nSet Tea-Dishes 3\\n2 Iron Potts 415\\n2 Iron Kittles 3 o\\n298", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\ns.\\nSkillet Bason 6\\n1 Tea-Kittle 7 IO\\n1 Chafing Dish 3\\n1 Tea-Pot 2 5\\n1 Toasting-iron j c\\n1 Frying-Pan 1\\n1 Warming-Pan 5 IO\\n1 Box-iron heater 2 5\\n4 pattipans, 1 pepper-pot, 1 canister. 2 4\\nI pair snuffers c\\n1 bellows 2\\n1 pair Tongs\\n1 J*? 1 14 10\\nI Gridiron\\n1 Tribbet (trivet)\\n2 Pair Hand-irons j IT IO\\nCase and a half of knives forks. 3\\n6 puter spunes jg\\nWooden ware 4\\nCooper work 714\\nGlasses Earthen ware 17 e\\n2 large punch boulds 218\\n3 likor glasses j IO\\n14 picter fraims 916\\nPictor and fraim of ye Royal Family. 30 5\\n1 Great wheel 5\\n1 Duch (Dutch) wheel 5\\n1 Horse Side-Saddle 100\\n4 cows 24\\n1 Stear 2 a\\n1 Sow Piggs c\\n1,520 10 11\\nReduced to Lawful Monev 1^2 t t\\n1 Negro Girl\\n185 10 11\\n299", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\nEquisetace^e (Horsetails).\\nPage 135.\\nThe cuticle or thin skin which covers the\\nHorsetails, is in all the species regularly and beau-\\ntifully decked with particles of flint, arranged in\\nlines and other forms, often not the five-hundredth\\npart of an inch in diameter.\\nThe Horsetails are found in every latitude from\\nthe equator to the poles, abounding in the tropical\\nparts of America and Asia and at the Cape of Good\\nHope, but becoming rare as we advance toward the\\npolar circles.\\nOur native species were by the old writers termed\\nShave-grasses, and, as this Corn Horsetail has\\nmuch of the roughness given by the particles of\\nflint, and as it is the most frequent species, it is\\nprobably the plant sold in Queen Elizabeth s time\\nby the Herbe-women of Cheapside under the\\nnames of Shave-grass and Pewter-wort, or Vitraria,\\nthough it would doubtless have been considered in-\\nferior to the equisetum hyemale, which Gerarde calls\\nthe small and naked shave-grass, wherewith\\nfletchers and combe-makers doe rub and polish\\ntheir worke. It was very serviceable in the kitch-\\nens of olden times, and was doubtless used for\\ncleaning the wooden spoons and platters, the\\n1 breen of our forefathers, as well as the gar-\\nnish of pewter. Although in early days the tables\\nof the opulent were served with silver, yet in the\\nhumbler households wooden articles were com-\\nmonly used at the daily meals until the fifteenth and\\nsixteenth centuries, when pewter came into general\\nuse among the higher classes, though not until the\\neighteenth century were the articles made from it\\n300", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\nsufficiently cheap to admit of their being seen at\\nany save the rich man s table.\\nHarrison referring to this in 1580, says that in\\nsome places beyond the sea, a garnish of good\\nflat pewter of an ordinarie making is esteemed al-\\nmost so pretious as the like number of vessels that\\nare made of silver and in a maner no less desired\\namongst the great Estates where workmen are\\nnothing so skilful in that trade as ours, and the\\nprices he gives of the various articles prove their\\ngreat costliness.\\nThe shave-grasses served for cleaning either kind\\nof ware, and this Corn Horsetail is still used by\\nthe dairy-maids in Yorkshire for cleansing wooden\\nmilk-pails, while the larger and less frequent plant\\nhas long been known to our polishers of marble\\nand other similar substances, and under the name\\nof Dutch Rush has been imported from Holland for\\ntheir use.\\nThe main stem of the frond is usually erect, two\\nor three feet high, hollow, tapering towards its sum-\\nmit, and marked with from fourteen to twenty\\nridges. These ridges render the stem so rough to\\nthe touch that they are like a file, and their crystals\\nof flint display under the microscope the most\\nexquisitely beautiful arrangement. They abound\\nboth in the inner and outer cuticle, and form a com-\\nplete framework to the plant.\\nFerns of Great Britain and their Allies.\\nBy Anne Pratt.\\nPage 153.\\nAmong the Daughters of Liberty in Stratford\\nwere two children of a man who, although many\\nof his family were fighting for freedom, remained\\na Tory, declaring that even the frogs in the\\nmeadow croaked God save King George. The\\n301", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\nelder of these daughters, having lost her thimble,\\nwould not buy another, as it would be an imported\\narticle, and Polly, the little sister, scorning an Eng-\\nlish needle, learned to sew with a fine thorn.\\nPage 156.\\nA collection of arrow-heads, broken tomahawks,\\netc., gathered from this field, shows some arrow-\\nheads made of stone not found nearer than Maine\\nand Ohio, and at the Minneapolis Exhibition in\\n1891 some of the arrow-heads exhibited there that\\ncame from the Cliff-Dwellers in New Mexico were\\nof exactly the same shape and stone as some of\\nthose found near the Spindle-tree.\\nPage 170.\\nIn the Virginia campaign resulting in the defeat\\nof Cornwallis, the Due de Lauzun s was the first\\nforce to meet the corps of Tarleton, and for this\\nservice he was chosen to carry the news of the sur-\\nrender of Yorktown to France.\\nThe Chevalier de Hoehn was rewarded for cour-\\nage at Yorktown.\\nDe Lauzun suffered under the guillotine in 1793.\\nCount Dillon was also guillotined.\\n302", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "PUBLICATIONS OF\\nTHE BAKER TAYLOR CO.,\\nPublishers and Booksellers,\\n5 and 7 EAST SIXTEENTH ST., NEW YORK.\\nNEW ENGLAND SUBJECTS.\\nA PURITAN WOOING. A Tale of the Great Awakening\\nin New England. 1740-1750. By Frank Samuel Child.\\ni2mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25.\\nThe story of a courtship which involved the play of in-\\ntense, fanatic, religious feeling, and the deep forces which\\nmaster the human heart in its experience of the tender pas-\\nsion. Three types of colonial character are portrayed with\\nsingular charm and fidelity. The life of the period named\\nThe Great Awakening appears in all its startling changes\\nand tragic situations. Large portions of the book are vivid\\npictures of real scenes, the historic setting being accurate and\\npainstaking at the same time that it is highly imaginative and\\nvital with the literary spirit. The book is a gateway into a\\nfresh realm of New England life.\\nA very successful picture of Puritan characteristics.\\nCongregationalist.\\nA vivid description of the great awakening that swept\\nlike a tidal wave over New England one hundred and sixty\\nyears ago. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.\\nA remarkable book; an excellent and powerful story.\\n~-New York Press.", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "BAKER TA YLOR CO. S PUBLIC A TIONS.\\nNEW ENGLAND SUBJECTS.\\nA COLONIAL WITCH. A study of the Black Art in the\\nColony of Connecticut. By Frank Samuel Child. i2mo,\\ncloth, gilt top, $1.25.\\nA psychological romance after the style of Hawthorne.\\nIn the pathetic and picturesque figure of the witch Anne Hardy\\nthe author has achieved a deft and subtle piece of characteri-\\nzation. The Critic.\\nA vivid picture of the times and an entertaining and in-\\nstructive story. New York Herald.\\nA COLONIAL PARSON OF NEW ENGLAND. By\\nFrank Samuel Child. i2mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25.\\nAn interesting, humorous and sympathetic study of one\\nof the most entertaining figures in the life and history of New\\nEngland.\\nA series of captivating sketches a charming\\ncontribution to our picture gallery of the days of our fathers.\\nThe Literary World.\\nAn instructive and racy book. N. Y. Observer.\\nA sympathetic and careful picture of an attractive old\\nfigure in the earlier history of America. N, Y. Tribune.", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "BAKER TAYLOR CO. S PUBLICATIONS,\\nNEW ENGLAND SUBJECTS,\\nJEFFERSON WILDRIDER. By Elizabeth Glover.\\nCloth, decorated, $1.25.\\nThe author is to be congratulated upon having written\\na wholesome and always interesting story of New England\\nlife. Literary World.\\nMarked by smoothness and reserve, and the book is alto-\\ngether interesting and wholesome. Boston Transcript.\\nIt is a pleasure to praise such a story. It ought to give\\nmany people pleasure and the author ought to write others.\\nThe Criterion.\\nAn interesting tale of New England life and a subtle\\nstudy of character and heredity. N. Y. Commercial Adver-\\ntiser.\\nA strong picture of common life, with unusual charac-\\nteristics deftly used. Evangelist.\\nMANSFIELD RECORDS. Births, Baptisms, Marriages,\\nand Deaths, from the Records of the Town and Churches\\nin Mansfield, Connecticut. 1703-1850. Copied from the\\nrecords by Susan W. Dimock. 8vo, cloth, net $5.00.\\nPatriotic societies and those interested in genealogy will\\nfind this book an invaluable aid. The original records are fast\\nbecoming illegible and in many cases half destroyed.", "height": "3370", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "saltboxhouseeigh00shel_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "BAKER 6- TAYLOR CO. S PUBLICATIONS.\\nGood History and a Good Story.\\nTHE REGICIDES.\\nA Tale of Early Colonial Times.\\nBy FREDERICK HULL COGSWELL. i2mo, cloth,\\ngilt top, illustrated, $1.50.\\nAn absorbing story of Puritan New England, dealing\\nlargely with actual historical characters and events, the\\naction centering in the flight and pursuit of Generals\\nWhalley and Goffe, signers of the death-warrant of Charles\\nthe First. This romantic episode is here treated for the\\nfirst time in fiction.\\nA powerful picture of Connecticut in the early colonial\\ndays. Philadelphia Times.\\nOne of the most important historical tales yet written.\\nCleveland Leader.\\nBound to take a high and permanent place in American\\nliterature. Worcester Spy.\\nA splendid picture of the life and customs of colonial\\ndays. Springfield Union.\\nA vivid picture of that early past to which the incidents\\nof the story belong. Boston Transcript.\\nA strong and veracious picture of colonial life. Mr.\\nCogswell has made a book of genuine historical value,\\nand of excellent qualities as a work of fiction. The inci-\\ndental sketch of New-Amsterdam is full of humor, and\\ngenial humor is not lacking elsewhere in the story. The\\npathos is strong but never forced. New York Times.\\nLess sombre than Hawthorne, the author betrays an\\nequal sympathy with and comprehension of the Puritan\\ncharacter. The whole panorama of colonial life is sketched\\nin vivid colors. The narrative is simple and direct, and is\\nset forth in a style admirable for its clearness and vigor.\\nThe book is a contribution to that American literature of\\nwhich so much has been written and said, and of which few\\npersons have seen any evidence. 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