. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . he wool or flax must be raised, spun,and woven. In the South, even if a gown was tobe bought and not groion^ it generally had to be ordered fromEngland; and as at least three months would have to pass beforethe buyer could receive it, deciding what to send for was a seri-ous business. TraveUng was difficult. To go from Philadelphiato New York took three days by stage-coach, and when it wasannounced that one was to make the journey in two days, peoplethought the name, the Flying Ma-chine, was well deserved. Everyone who visited
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . he wool or flax must be raised, spun,and woven. In the South, even if a gown was tobe bought and not groion^ it generally had to be ordered fromEngland; and as at least three months would have to pass beforethe buyer could receive it, deciding what to send for was a seri-ous business. TraveUng was difficult. To go from Philadelphiato New York took three days by stage-coach, and when it wasannounced that one was to make the journey in two days, peoplethought the name, the Flying Ma-chine, was well deserved. Everyone who visited a city expectedto have many commissions forhis friends. Stage driversand postriders did er-rands. Only three or fouryears ago, an old lady onCape Cod said that in her eahia- amekuan .sta(;k youth she and her friends always sent to Boston by the captainof the packet boat for their bonnets. And they were prettyones, too, she added. Many of the things that the colonists would gladly have made KKANKLINS IKINTINCi IJilCSS(Now owned by the Bostonian Society) Traveling. TIMES BEFORE THE REVOLUTION 133 for themselves England would not allow them to make, because Englandthe English manufacturers wished to make money selling their ^anufac-goods to the colonists. If the colonists began to make hammers turesand axes, straightway the English manufacturers of hammersand axes would get a law passed that no such things should bemade in America. More than this, no colony was allowed to sellgoods to any other colony without paying a must buy of England, and whatever they pro-duced must be sold to England, even if other coun-tries would pay a higher price. They must not buya paper of pins from any other country,no matter how much better and cheaperthe pins were than those made in Eng-land. These laws were unjust, and thecolonists broke them just as far asthey dared. Articles were sent fromone colony to another mthout thepayment of any tax, foreign goodswere smuggled into the coast towns
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