| Customs and Fashions in Old New England Contributor(s): Earle, Alice Morse (Author) |
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ISBN: 1530559596 ISBN-13: 9781530559596 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.48 lbs) 156 pages |
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| Publisher Description: From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England he had a Spartan struggle for life. In summer-time he fared comparatively well, but in winter the ill-heated houses of the colonists gave to him a most chilling and benumbing welcome. Within the great open fireplace, when fairly scorched in the face by the glowing flames of the roaring wood fire, he might be bathed and dressed, and he might be cuddled and nursed in warmth and comfort; but all his baby hours could not be spent in the ingleside, and were he carried four feet away from the chimney on a raw winter's day he found in his new home a temperature that would make a modern infant scream with indignant discomfort, or lie stupefied with cold. |