History of Hudson County and of the old village of Bergen : being a brief account of the foundation and growth of what is now Jersey City and of the many advantages now offered the inhabitants thereof in the newly constructed building of the Trust Company of New Jersey . as shaded by a small porchwith side seats, a most convenient place for the assem-bling of neighbors, when making friendly calls or dis-cussing any matters of general interest. There arevery few houses of the old type remaining, andthese have been so changed and modernized that theold homes are not what they used to be. The wid
History of Hudson County and of the old village of Bergen : being a brief account of the foundation and growth of what is now Jersey City and of the many advantages now offered the inhabitants thereof in the newly constructed building of the Trust Company of New Jersey . as shaded by a small porchwith side seats, a most convenient place for the assem-bling of neighbors, when making friendly calls or dis-cussing any matters of general interest. There arevery few houses of the old type remaining, andthese have been so changed and modernized that theold homes are not what they used to be. The wide hall was in the summer time the livingroom of the family, and here could be found the busyhousewife, with carding or spinning wheel, adding toher household stores, and ever and anon touching withher foot the great mahogany rocker that had soothedthe restlessness of former generations, while the oldgrandmother sat nodding and dozing in her easy chair,or teaching the youngsters the mysteries of patchwork,or narrowing down the stocking heel, or perhaps guid-ing the clumsy fingers over the artistic and much-prized sampler. The old patriarch of the family sat near-by, dandling OLD BERGEN. 313 on his knee mayhap the great-grandchild, to therliythmical cadence of: —. OLD HOME. Trippe trop a tronches, Varkes in the vonches,Couches in the clawver, Pearches in the hawver,Calfes in the long a gras, Anches in the wasser plos,And the clina young-a, so groat wass. Grandfathers clock ticked noisily in the corner, withLunas fair face peeping over the dial and markingthequarters with a shameless irregularity, while the upperhalf-door stood hospitably open as if inviting the passer-by to join in the friendly chat or harmless gossip. Opening into the hall were the sleeping rooms onthe one side, and the parlor on the other, the latterseldom opened, except in case of marriage or death,or for the periodical cleaning, when after a thoroughsweeping and dusting, it was again closed until somespecia
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