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I ly hung over me ouit” ^wooden pin. or natural bracket. I ^ faetened to the log. of the cabin. I | ^ the loft were hung all sort, of dried herb, to be u.ed for medicine or P cooking, and strings of dried apple*, peaches and pumpkin cut in thin i il ice. hanging in festoon, from the i clapboard roof. One or two barrels I in8 . of maple sugar were kept there and ’ the bed. for the older children. The amusement, of that day were hunt- j ing or trapping game, corn husklngs oe] to which all the neighborhood was pi( ’ mvited, held in the barn at night Pa usually, and apple and peach eut- »n Ungs in the bouses. When all re™, prepared for drying and the ied tubs parings and cores put out or the way, the puncheon floor swept up into the fire, play, of various kinds were indulgad in, and sometime. they danced the Virginia reel or cotilleon. to the music of a fiddle, a. the instrument was called in tho.. d»y.. At * l.t. hour they broke up and departed to their various homes.ITo be Continued. 1Hi'thdaVIamb:P«ol*1alt;G
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The Clermont Courier
Batavia, Ohio, US
Wed, Jul 01, 1914
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