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Home Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle

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  1. 1Foreword
  2. 2Chapter I — Homes of the Colonists
  3. 3Chapter II — The Light of Other Days
  4. 4Chapter III — The Kitchen Fireside
  5. 5Chapter IV — The Serving of Meals
  6. 6Chapter V — Food from Forest and Sea
  7. 7Chapter VI — Indian Corn
  8. 8Chapter VII — Meat and Drink
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Flax Culture and Spinning
  10. 10Chapter IX — Wool Culture and Spinning — With a Postscript on Cotton
  11. 11Chapter X — Hand-Weaving
  12. 12Chapter XI — Girls’ Occupations
  13. 13Chapter XII — Dress of the Colonists
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Jack-knife Industries
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Travel, Transportation, and Taverns
  16. 16Chapter XV — Sunday in the Colonies
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Colonial Neighborliness
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Old-time Flower Gardens

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