Young folks' history of the United States . he men, as they went in, leaving their musketsunder hib care. We should, perhaps, find a cannon ortwo planted near the meeting-house; and we shouldalso notice some strangewooden frames not faroff, these being the stocksand the pillory, put thereto punish at this churchitself, we should see thatit had very few glass win-dows, and that these hadvery small and thickpanes, diamond-shaped,and set in leaden should observe thatthe other windows had _ oiled paper instead of ^^^vu,, glass ; and we should see ^^^^^ ^^^ England churc
Young folks' history of the United States . he men, as they went in, leaving their musketsunder hib care. We should, perhaps, find a cannon ortwo planted near the meeting-house; and we shouldalso notice some strangewooden frames not faroff, these being the stocksand the pillory, put thereto punish at this churchitself, we should see thatit had very few glass win-dows, and that these hadvery small and thickpanes, diamond-shaped,and set in leaden should observe thatthe other windows had _ oiled paper instead of ^^^vu,, glass ; and we should see ^^^^^ ^^^ England the windows the heads of wolves that had beenkilled and displayed there during the past year. If we were to look inside the little church, we should church services not find families sitting together, as now; but theywould be distributed according to age, or sex, or those days the old men sat together in one place inchurch, the young men in another, the young women inanother. The boys all sat on the pulpit-stairs and gal-. 76 YOUNG folks united states. lery-stairs, guarded by constables. Each of these con-stables had a wand, with a hares foot on one end, anda hares tail on the other. These were to keep peopleawake. If any woman went to sleep, the constabletouched her on the forehead with the hares tail; but,if a small boy nodded, he was rapped with the otherend, not quite so gently. No doubt the wand was oftenused; for the services were sometimes three or fourhours long, the sexton turning the hour-glass beforethe minister at the end of every hour. The onlymusic consisted of singing by the congregation, from,a metrical version of the Psalms, called The BayPsalm Book. The whole number of tunes known tothe people did not exceed ten ; and few congregationscould go beyond five. This was the Puritan form ofreligious service. And people were not allowed tostay at home from it; for men called tithing-men weresent about the town to look for those who were w
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