[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.