. Our colonial homes. *? = bl OSt ™,y-ff-ground situated at the head ofl * ^ that *e ** ris- *e spot of all others. * ^ Plain . on the whole, So to work all went with a will among them. as the unAa. ^ mSt hare °een clever*°se primitive days. To begi„„I 7 ° C°mmo °e fora distance from the chose^ te We ^ ^ * « ^toW with sledge and bar J^Z Q ? ^ ^ Whife some°*ers trudged to and fro with Te C, ^ * *»those who w^r« ^ 1 , nand barrows Sr> ~~ employed i„ mixing fa ^ ^ .-_ ^counting 20S OUR COLOXIAL HOMES \ walls, about all the able-bodied men present must have put inmore or less labor
. Our colonial homes. *? = bl OSt ™,y-ff-ground situated at the head ofl * ^ that *e ** ris- *e spot of all others. * ^ Plain . on the whole, So to work all went with a will among them. as the unAa. ^ mSt hare °een clever*°se primitive days. To begi„„I 7 ° C°mmo °e fora distance from the chose^ te We ^ ^ * « ^toW with sledge and bar J^Z Q ? ^ ^ Whife some°*ers trudged to and fro with Te C, ^ * *»those who w^r« ^ 1 , nand barrows Sr> ~~ employed i„ mixing fa ^ ^ .-_ ^counting 20S OUR COLOXIAL HOMES \ walls, about all the able-bodied men present must have put inmore or less labor on the building. That the work was well donewe know. The minister himself was a scholar, refined, delicatelyreared, unaccustomed to labor with his hands : yet for all that wethink it would be safe to wager something that he did not standidle while others worked, but was as busy as the busiest. Whenevery man had done his share the house was built. We do not precisely know either when the house was com-. THE OLD STONE HOUSE. GCILFORD. CUXX. pleted. or when first occupied. It is more likely than not that itwas readv for its tenant some time during the year 1640. Suchhouses are not built in a day. And to think that any vestige ofthe self-same building should be standing to-day. greatly emphasizesthe durable character of the work done so long ago. W~hen wecast a look back and think of its great age. a year or two more orless becomes a small matter indeed. The Old -Stone House (we do not know either just when it beganto grow old. or to be affectionately called so> was a solid, sub-stantial, and even comfortable dwelling, as it was meant to be. not MfflWMHWWIl1 THE OLD STONE HOUSE 209 only for that time, but for two centuries later. It consisted of amain building and an L. Plain to homeliness it certainly was ; yetits two big outside chimneys, heavily buttressed up against theexterior walls, have no counterpart, that we know of, in New Eng-land, though that manner
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