. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. First Meeting-House in West Springfield. Soon the minister enters. He wears a black gown and whiteneck band. As he approaches the pulpit stairs, the boys whoare sitting there give way and he mounts to his high prays and reads from the big Bible and then begins hissermon. There is no clock; but by him stands the hour glass,and, if the sermon is very long, he has to turn the glass and THE SETTLEMENT 37. start the sand running again. Sermons
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. First Meeting-House in West Springfield. Soon the minister enters. He wears a black gown and whiteneck band. As he approaches the pulpit stairs, the boys whoare sitting there give way and he mounts to his high prays and reads from the big Bible and then begins hissermon. There is no clock; but by him stands the hour glass,and, if the sermon is very long, he has to turn the glass and THE SETTLEMENT 37. start the sand running again. Sermons were long in thosedays. Paper, too, was scarce and costly, and for this reasonthey were written so fine that they had to be read the minister has finished, the people pass reverentlyout, pursuing their several ways up and down the village road,which is indeed the Main street, but almost the only one. Some of the boys havestopped on the edgeof the hassocky marshand are looking intothe brook. They areplanning to drop a fishWi line in there , if they crossthe marsh, they will flush a crane. A smithy had been built and a meeting-house, but as yet,after the lapse of forty years, there had been no read in the town records of no teacher paid by the there were, irregularly, dame schools, taught by somewoman, who like Goody TwoShoes, received her pay di-rectly from the most that the childrenlearned was probably readingand writing, and it was notcommon for girls to some of the me
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