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    The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
    The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
    The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
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    The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

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      The Olden Time Series - Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of

      the Spinning-Wheel in New England, by Henry M. Brooks

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England

             Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

      Editor: Henry M. Brooks

      Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22405]

      [Last updated: May 6, 2012]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLDEN TIME SERIES ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Christine D. and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES.

      16mo. Per vol., 50 cents.

      There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of Ye Olden Time, and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. The materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be history, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined and presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:—

      Curiosities of the Old Lottery.

      Days of the Spinning-Wheel.

      Some Strange and Curious Punishments.

      Quaint and Curious Advertisements.

      Literary Curiosities.

      New-England Sunday, etc.

      It has been the good fortune of the writer to be allowed a peep at the manuscript for this series, and he can assure the lovers of the historical and the quaint in literature that something both valuable and pleasant is in store for them. In the specialties treated of in these books Mr. Brooks has been for many years a careful collector and student, and it is gratifying to learn that the material is to be committed to book form.—Salem Gazette.

      For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price. Catalogues of our books mailed free.

      TICKNOR & CO., Boston.

      THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

      THE DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND

      To say that the past is of no importance, unworthy of a moment's regard, because it has gone by, and is no longer anything, is an argument that cannot be held to any purpose; for if the past has ceased to be, and is therefore to be accounted nothing in the scale of good or evil, the future is yet to come, and has never been anything.—Hazlitt.

      "In my young days, when I was leetle,

      The only steam came from the kettle.

      ....

      "The Gals on good old Dobbins rid then,

      But folks don't do as they used to did then.

      ....

      "Heigho! I grieve, I grieve

      For the good old days of Adam and Eve."

      From Henry J. Finn's Good Old Times,

      October, 1827.

      THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

      GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON

      AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

      SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS

      BY

      HENRY M. BROOKS

      The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England

      "Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is

      no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by

      proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."—Emerson

      BOSTON

      TICKNOR AND COMPANY

      1886

      Copyright, 1885,

      By Ticknor and Company.

      All rights reserved.

      University Press:

      John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

      INDEX OF NAMES.

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