A history of the United States for Catholic schools . it-ting, and quilting, while the father read his Bible or smoked his pipe. Sometimes cider-drinking, nut-cracking, andstory telling helped to whileaway the evening hours. Theyoung people, however, werenot without their amusements,such as house raising, dancing,and corn-husking parties, andsocial gatherings for spin-ning, quilting, and apple-par-ing. The chief holiday wasThanksgiving. Christmas wasnot observed because of thePuritan aversion for theChurch of England. In themiddle colonies, people weremore social and fonder ofmerry-making than
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . it-ting, and quilting, while the father read his Bible or smoked his pipe. Sometimes cider-drinking, nut-cracking, andstory telling helped to whileaway the evening hours. Theyoung people, however, werenot without their amusements,such as house raising, dancing,and corn-husking parties, andsocial gatherings for spin-ning, quilting, and apple-par-ing. The chief holiday wasThanksgiving. Christmas wasnot observed because of thePuritan aversion for theChurch of England. In themiddle colonies, people weremore social and fonder ofmerry-making than in NewEngland. In the countryspinning-bees, corn-husking, house raising, and dancing partieswere favorite amusements. In towns, horse-racing, cock-fight-ing, balls, and picnics, were greatly enjoyed. The chief holi-days were Christmas, New Years, St. Valentines Day, Easter,and May Day. In the South, the planters, with their choicedogs, blooded horses, and coaehes-and-six, lived in wastefulextravagance. The southerner was fond of such sports as fox-. PURITAN COSTUMES A SUMMARY OF COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT 163 lumtiiig and horse-racing. He was generous and hospitable,and his house was always open to the respectable was the great holiday of the year. On this dayeverything was gay and bright in the planters house. 228. Colonial Differences. The thirteen original colonies,though thirteen distinct governments, had very nuich in com-mon. They were notably Englisli colonies, obeyed Englishlaws, and called the English sovereign their king. They tradedAvith one another, kept in touch one with the other by meansof letters and newspapers, and moved from one colony toanother. Still we have seen, while studying the thirteen orig-inal colonies in divisions of three groups, that the dwellers ofthe various parts of the country differed greatly from oneanother in respect to government, enterprise, religion, andspirit. The difference in the main, however, was that betweenthe Cavali
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