A home geography of New York city . 126 HOME GEOGEAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY Farming. In the spring the women and children planted corn,beans, and pumpkins, and enjoyed the work. In the fall theygathered the ripe corn and other vegetables and stored them for thewinter. They then had a general good time to celebrate their harvest. Nursing. In the Indian gMsnature-study lessons she learnedsomething about Indian medi-cines, so that when she was awoman she could nurse the Indian medicines were madeof herbs, roots, bark, and other children living in old Manhattan were ill they did not get nice
A home geography of New York city . 126 HOME GEOGEAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY Farming. In the spring the women and children planted corn,beans, and pumpkins, and enjoyed the work. In the fall theygathered the ripe corn and other vegetables and stored them for thewinter. They then had a general good time to celebrate their harvest. Nursing. In the Indian gMsnature-study lessons she learnedsomething about Indian medi-cines, so that when she was awoman she could nurse the Indian medicines were madeof herbs, roots, bark, and other children living in old Manhattan were ill they did not get nice littlesugar-coated pills or other medicines equally pleas-ant. They had to drink a big cupful of strong,bitter tea made of herbs and roots. Studies. The girls were taught music, singing,dancing, picture writing, history stories, myths, andfables. While the girls were studjdng and learning to be good littlehousekeepers they played games and enjoyed themselves in theirfree time as little girls do Tool used in mak-ing A SOAPSTONE Pot CHAPTER XXIV THE COMING OF THE WHITE MAN The Coming of the Half Moon as told by a DelawareChief to a Missionary A great many years ago, when men with white skin had neveryet been seen in this land, some Indians, who were out fishing at aplace where the sea widens, espied at a great distance somethingremarkably large floating on the water, and such as they had neverseen before. These Indians, immediately returning to the shore, apprisedtheir countrymen of what they had observed, and pressed them togo out with them and discover what it might be. They hurried outtogether, and saw with astonishment the phenomenon which nowappeared to their sight, but could not agree upon what it was;some believed it to be an uncommonly large fish or animal, whileothers were of the opinion it must be a very big house floatingon the sea. At length the spectators concluded that this wonderful objectwas moving towards the land, and that it must be an animal orsomet
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