The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England

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Title: The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
Author: Various
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THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES.
16mo. Per vol., 50 cents.
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There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of "Ye Olden Time," and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. The materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be history, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined and presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:--
CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY. DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL. SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS. QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. LITERARY CURIOSITIES. NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY, ETC.
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"It has been the good fortune of the writer to be allowed a peep at the manuscript for this series, and he can assure the lovers of the historical and the quaint in literature that something both valuable and pleasant is in store for them. In the specialties treated of in these books Mr. Brooks has been for many years a careful collector and student, and it is gratifying to learn that the material is to be committed to book form."--Salem Gazette.
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For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price. Catalogues of our books mailed free.
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THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
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THE DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND
"To say that the past is of no importance, unworthy of a moment's regard, because it has gone by, and is no longer anything, is an argument that cannot be held to any purpose; for if the past has ceased to be, and is therefore to be accounted nothing in the scale of good or evil, the future is yet to come, and has never been anything."--HAZLITT.
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"In my young days, when I was leetle, The only steam came from the kettle.
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"The Gals on good old Dobbins rid then, But folks don't do as they used to did then.
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"Heigho! I grieve, I grieve For the good old days of Adam and Eve."
From HENRY J. FINN'S "Good Old Times,"
October, 1827.

THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
BY
HENRY M. BROOKS
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The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England
"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON
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BOSTON
TICKNOR AND COMPANY
1886
Copyright, 1885,
BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.
All rights reserved.
University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

INDEX OF NAMES.
PAGE
ABERDOUR, JOHN LORD 71 Adams, Samuel 71 Amherst, General 38 Amiel, John 53 Amory, Jonathan 79 Apthorp, Charles Ward 30 Apthorpe, Charles 33 Apthorpe, Rev. Mr. 33 Apthorpe, Susan 33 Ashton, John 35 Avery, John 55, 56
BALCH, Rev. Mr. 29 Balkum, Daniel 89 Barnard, Benjamin 61 Belknap, Jeremiah 29 Bernard, Gov. Francis 35, 36, 37, 46 Blanchard, Caleb 84 Bollan, William 9 Bowditch, Nathaniel 42 Bowdoin, Hon. James 33 Bowdoin, Miss 33 Brattle, William 63 Breck, Samuel 88 Brenton, Benjamin 54 Britt, Thomas 59 Brown, B. 97 Brown, Obadiah 64 Bulfinch, Dr. Thomas 33 Butler, Mr. 21
CALDWELL, JAMES 68 Carpenter, Captain 19 Carr, Colonel 68 Chase, Samuel & William 21 Clark, John 68 Clark, Stephen 13 Clarke, Richard 59 Clarke, Sukey 59 Cole, Patrick 68 Colman, Rev. Henry 97 Cooper, William 20 Copeland, E. Jr. 86 Copley, John Singleton 59, 72 Crocker, Cornelius 10 Crosby, John 60
DALAND, B. 97 Dalrymple, Colonel 68 Dana, Rev. Mr. 81 Darley, Arthur 57 Davis, Joshua 60 Deane, Rev. Samuel 93 Deane, Mrs. 93 Deshon, Moses 15 Douglass, Mr. 39, 41
EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES 6 Edes & Gill 11,16,32,43 Elliot, Sally 33 Elliot, Simon 33, 85, 86 Ellis, Mrs. 91 Ellis, Rev. Mr. 90 Elwell, Edward H. 93 Emerson, R.W. 6 Erving, John 67
FLEMMING, ALBERT 98 Flynt, Henry 17, 18 Fowle & Draper 48 Franklin, Dr. Benjamin 24 Franklin, Elizabeth 24
GAY,