[311] Earle, Child life in colonial days, 226.

[312] Earle, Diary of Anna Green Winslow, A Boston School Girl of 1771.

[313] Eggleston, Social conditions in the colonies, Century magazine, VI, 853.

[314] McMaster, History of the people of the United States, I, 27.

[315] Ibid., I, 29.

[316] Earle, Customs and fashions in old New England, 361.

[317] Earle, Customs and fashions in old New England, 343.

[318] Ibid., 344.

[319] Ibid., 340.

[320] Earle, Customs and fashions in old New England, 337.