. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. de it dependent in athousand different ways. Take away transportation, takeaway markets, take away every machine-made thing, andyou would throw us a long way back toward feudal clothing, in food, in shelter, in household goods, infarming tools, nothing was then bought that could bemade. Little money was seen, little was needed ; forclothing was made at home ; the forest and the pigpenfurnished meat; tolls were taken at the mills
. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. de it dependent in athousand different ways. Take away transportation, takeaway markets, take away every machine-made thing, andyou would throw us a long way back toward feudal clothing, in food, in shelter, in household goods, infarming tools, nothing was then bought that could bemade. Little money was seen, little was needed ; forclothing was made at home ; the forest and the pigpenfurnished meat; tolls were taken at the mills for grind-ing grain; taxes were worked out or paid in taxes were light anyway. If a farmer raisedmore grain than he needed for his own use, he couldexchange it for labor, which was more serviceable to himthan cash. Let us look a littlemore closely at theprincipal features ofthis life. The con-ditions here por-trayed are truly typ-ical, though theywould not all bepresent in everycommunity, and pos-sibly not all in any single settlement. We have already noticed one instance of settlersgoing into the wilderness, clearing land for their first. W I X N () W I .\ t i 1 > A S K ET 54 HISTORY OF VERMONT crops, sowing wheat, building a cabin, and thus laying invarious ways the foundations of their new home beforethey took their families there to live. The hardships offrontier life were lightened greatly when this could bedone; for a single favorable season might suffice to reara little one-room cabin of logs, and secure grain enoughfrom the mellow soil of the clearing to keep the house-hold alive while the nextyears crops were , if the settler couldtake with him on his secondtrip, in the following spring,a cow, a pig, and some poul-try, he would make the con-ditions of life quite tolerablefor his wife and childrenfrom the start. There were plenty, how-ever, who began life underno such favorable circum-stances. Men and womenwent bravely into the forestwith li
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