Home Life in Colonial Days
by Alice Morse Earle
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Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter I. Homes of the Colonists
- Chapter II. The Light of Other Days
- Chapter III. The Kitchen Fireside
- Chapter IV. The Serving of Meals
- Chapter V. Food from Forest and Sea
- Chapter VI. Indian Corn
- Chapter VII. Meat and Drink
- Chapter VIII. Flax Culture and Spinning
- Chapter IX. Wool Culture and Spinning With a Postscript on Cotton
- Chapter X. Hand-Weaving
- Chapter XI. Girls' Occupations
- Chapter XII. Dress of the Colonists
- Chapter XIII. Jack-Knife Industries
- Chapter XIV. Travel, Transportation, and Taverns
- Chapter XV. Sunday in the Colonies
- Chapter XVI. Colonial Neighborliness
- Chapter XVII. Old-Time Flower Gardens