. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. led with mud. There wasusually one, and sometimes two, doors ineach of these rooms, besides one or two open- 126 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI iugs for light. These openings were some-times closed with board shutters, and occa-sionally were filled with glass. The roomsliad puncheon floors. The space between thetwo rooms was left open for the circulationof light and air. It was not infrequentlyleft without a floor. In each of the roomsthere was a large fire place. The chimne
. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. led with mud. There wasusually one, and sometimes two, doors ineach of these rooms, besides one or two open- 126 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI iugs for light. These openings were some-times closed with board shutters, and occa-sionally were filled with glass. The roomsliad puncheon floors. The space between thetwo rooms was left open for the circulationof light and air. It was not infrequentlyleft without a floor. In each of the roomsthere was a large fire place. The chimneywas usually built of mud and sticks, some-times of stone. One of these large rooms were not nuich concerned about religion, elsethey would not have said themselves to begood Catholics. They were most of them will-ing to set aside whatever convictions they hadon religious subjects, in order to be admittedto the Spanish territory. The testimony ofmissionaries who traveled among them is thatthey were in a deplorable condition, relig-iously. They had no services of their own toattend, many of them were unwilling to at-. HoME OF Our 1i\\thers was used for the kitclieii. tlie other was tliefamily living room. Tlie slaves owned bythe familj lived in small cabins in tlie rear oftlie house. The American familys wealthand importance was estimated by tlie size ofthe barns and the numl)er of slave caliins ontlie place. These American settlers were part of tliemCatholics, such as the settlers at St. ]\Iichaelsand many of those who settled in Perrycomity; many of the others were some of them professed no religion at is evident that many of the Protestants tend tlie services of the Catholic church, sotliey were witliout religious among them was too often a holidaygiven up to the pursuit of pleasure of onekind and another. Unlike the French settlers, the Americanswere people who depended largely upontheir own resources. Instead of importinggoods for t
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