A first book in American history with European beginnings . d doing. Twice each Sunday everyone must attend service the men sat on one side of the church, andthe women on the other. The little girls sat on low stoolsat their mothers feet. The boys sat together, either in apew or on the pulpit steps. Then there was the tithing man, who carried a longstick with a hares foot on one end and a hares tail on theother. If a boy nodded during the long sermon, he waseither tickled with the tail or rapped with the foot. Hispunishment depended on whether it was his first offense ora bad hab
A first book in American history with European beginnings . d doing. Twice each Sunday everyone must attend service the men sat on one side of the church, andthe women on the other. The little girls sat on low stoolsat their mothers feet. The boys sat together, either in apew or on the pulpit steps. Then there was the tithing man, who carried a longstick with a hares foot on one end and a hares tail on theother. If a boy nodded during the long sermon, he waseither tickled with the tail or rapped with the foot. Hispunishment depended on whether it was his first offense ora bad habit. Many bad habits were severely punished by thePuritans in these early colonial days. A cross, scoldingwoman was made to stand outside her door with a stick 113 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY tied in her mouth. A man who was caught telling anuntruth had to stand in some public place with a largesign hung from his neck. On the sign was printed the wordliar. The same kind of punishment was given a settlers of Boston were a very busy people. If. The Chief Settlements Made in New England between1620 and 1675. a housekeeper wanted linen or woolen cloth, she mustweave it. If her family needed mittens or stockings, shemust first spin the yarn and then knit them. Nor mustshe neglect making the candles and soap. Each man must hunt and catch what his family were toeat. He must till the soil, raise crops and make most of 114 WINTHROP AND THE PURITANS the furniture and even many of the dishes for his all this, after he had built the house itself, with thehelp of his neighbors. This helping of ones neighbors was a noted virtueamong the first colonists. When a new settler came tothe colony, the men had a chopping bee, a stump pull-ing, and a raising; and in a short time his land wascleared and his house built. Or, if a mans crops were tooheavy for him to handle alone, his neighbors fell to with awill and, for pay, wanted only his thanks. It was the same with the women.
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