The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . Tbctr education. used in the Middle and Southern colonies, and wasverv ruinous to health and morals-People of wealth made great display in their lace and many silver buckles and buttons wereworn. Workingmen of all sorts wore leather, deer-skin, or coarse canvas breeches. The stockings wornbv men were long, the breeches were short, andbuckled, or otherwise fastened, at the knees. Our forefathers traveled about in canoes and littlesailing-boats called shallops. Most of the canoes wouldhold about six men,
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . Tbctr education. used in the Middle and Southern colonies, and wasverv ruinous to health and morals-People of wealth made great display in their lace and many silver buckles and buttons wereworn. Workingmen of all sorts wore leather, deer-skin, or coarse canvas breeches. The stockings wornbv men were long, the breeches were short, andbuckled, or otherwise fastened, at the knees. Our forefathers traveled about in canoes and littlesailing-boats called shallops. Most of the canoes wouldhold about six men, but some were large enough tocarrv fortv or more. For a long time there were noroads except Indian trails and bridle-paths, which couldonly be traveled on foot oron horseback. Goods werecarried on pack-horses, orin boats and little roads were made,wagons came into use. In a life so hard and busyas that of the earlv LIFE IN THE TIME. 95 there was little time for education. The schools werefew and t,^encrally poor. Boys, when taught at all, learned to read, write,and cast accounts Gills ueic t lu^lit
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