. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. THE SETTLEMENT 29 holder there and not many years after the settlement ofSpringfield the fierce struggle going on in England for politi-cal and religious liberty ended in a civil war, which cost KingCharles his crown and life. The fact that the settlers herehad land for the using of it made them all farmers, whatevercalling they had followed in the old country. To cultivatethe soil was the most natural and easy thing to do. At firstthere was no m
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. THE SETTLEMENT 29 holder there and not many years after the settlement ofSpringfield the fierce struggle going on in England for politi-cal and religious liberty ended in a civil war, which cost KingCharles his crown and life. The fact that the settlers herehad land for the using of it made them all farmers, whatevercalling they had followed in the old country. To cultivatethe soil was the most natural and easy thing to do. At firstthere was no minister (we are spef?king of all the early times). Old-Time English Children^ Playing Horse. who was not also something of a farmer, as many ministerswere, even down to Dr. Osgood in the nineteenth century. But there is one trade which is very necessary even to asmall community of farmers; there are horses and oxen tobe shod, plows mended and all sorts of farming and domesticimplements to be repaired, and in a place so far away fromthe rest of the world as Springfield, these would sometimesneed to be made on the spot. For all this there was need ofa blacksmith. After ten years had passed no one had cometo the settlement who could do this work or do it well. Thereare many kinds of smiths, like whitesmiths and locksmiths,and how many people gave especial attention to smithery is 30 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD plain when one stops to consider how common is the nameof Smith. But the blacksmith is, in a young settlement likeSpringfield, the most important of all. The townspeople feltthat they must have a blacksmith, and just as one puts up abir
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