StNicholas . A person traveling in New England, about acentury ago, would have found there a frugal andindustrious people, dwelling generally in or nearvillages, and employed mainly in trade and might have seen, in the older towns, factories In many houses, the floor had no carpet, and thewalls of that day had no paper nor paint. Neitherpumps nor cooking-stoves were in use. The sofawas a high-backed bench of unpainted wood. Therude, low bedstead was honored almost always witha coat of green paint. The sewing-machine was I :;v^^.

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