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.