. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ed many games, but bowling was a favorite sport. Then came the small farmer, who lived on his farm in aclean little house, kept as a model home by the thrifty wife ;while the patroons in their t>iie houses on their great farms,lived more like the southern planter, and looked down on thetradesman and workman. In New England the people lived simple, quiet lives, refusedto adopt the amusements of more worldly people, and devotedtheir time and energy to the development of the colony andthe education of the children. The ch


. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ed many games, but bowling was a favorite sport. Then came the small farmer, who lived on his farm in aclean little house, kept as a model home by the thrifty wife ;while the patroons in their t>iie houses on their great farms,lived more like the southern planter, and looked down on thetradesman and workman. In New England the people lived simple, quiet lives, refusedto adopt the amusements of more worldly people, and devotedtheir time and energy to the development of the colony andthe education of the children. The chief amusements were playing ball,(piilting-bees, corn-huskings, apple-paring parties, house and barn raisings, town-meetings, and training days, when the local militia were tirilled. There were some elegant houses in Boston and Salem, filledwith ornaments from foreign lands, with inlaid walls and costlyfloors, and all the adoiiiings wealth could give. But most of.


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