. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . r else-where, the men choose a place and build some sort of alodge at the shore, for the winter winds have demolishedthe old ones. Then the women begin to lug the householdgoods to their summer residences. They tie up a huge bundle of pots, and wooden spoons,and stone knives, and bone needles, and fish lines withstone sinkers, and fish nets, and their half-finished handi-work of mats or baskets ; then they get this burden ofperhaps a hundred pounds in weight upon their stoopingbacks, hanging it by a band across their foreheads. The
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . r else-where, the men choose a place and build some sort of alodge at the shore, for the winter winds have demolishedthe old ones. Then the women begin to lug the householdgoods to their summer residences. They tie up a huge bundle of pots, and wooden spoons,and stone knives, and bone needles, and fish lines withstone sinkers, and fish nets, and their half-finished handi-work of mats or baskets ; then they get this burden ofperhaps a hundred pounds in weight upon their stoopingbacks, hanging it by a band across their foreheads. They * See Roger Williams Key to the Languages of America, p. ioo. THE ABORIGINES. 87 hold their heads by clasping their hands over them, thuseasing the strain upon their necks. On they go singlefile through the woods by the old trail that leads to thebeach down Bound Brook or Rattlesnake Run. Half-grown girls carry little bundles for their motherswrapped in beaver skins, and if you look in at the top yousee the most stolid little red-faced baby with black eyes. Seven eighths natural and Edge View of Stone Hill. Beechwood.
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