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1 82 ANNALS OF OUR ANCESTORS esting place and typical of a prosperous, old-fashioned home. To me it seemed a regular "old curiosity shop." There we found three or four flax wheels — those small, low wheels — also big, high wheels for spinning woolen yarn, reels for winding thread, and all appliances for the domestic art of spinning and weaving so well known to our mothers. I remember to have seen the remnant of an old loom up there upon which they wove, in the long ago, those wonderful coverlids. What works of art they were where our grandmothers wove in their longings for home decoration! What houses, trees and flowers grew with their swiftly flying shuttles! They wove their names and perhaps the date of their accompHshment upon the borders of these coverlids. They were mostly blue and white or madder red and white; all the colors were of domestic making, and each woman had her dye-pot for coloring large quantities of yarn. I can remember ours, from which mother would take as much as a tubful of yarn at a time. Much ingenuity was required in housekeepers of those days — ingenuity and skill; each home was a little factory. The Morris mothers for generations had been known for their thrift and in the old attic it did not require great stretch of imagination to picture Grandmother Benjamin Morris before a blazing, open fire, one foot on the cradle rocker, rocking her son Isaac to sleep, the other on the treadle of the spinning wheel, while with her free hands she drew the fiber from the distaff". All this time her mind was free to plan her work, and so mentally, we fancy, she counted the number of towels, linen sheets and pillow cases she would need for the coming spring. She must also spin fine thread for her sewing and card and spin wool for stocking yarn as well as for the flannel and cloth for fulling she must weave. I imagine, too, that as she spun she studied on what colors would be best for the girls' dresses and her own. Besides, she must plan for a lot of blankets and coverlids. These latter she thinks she will make with a border of pine trees; the center will be either flowers or stars. The wheels were all silent in the attic, but they spoke of the industrious life of the Morris mother; and looking back over all the years we recall that she died of exhaustion at the
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ANNALS OF OUR ANCESTORS BY JULIA WA
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ANNALS OF OUR ANCESTORS / ONE HUNDR
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CHAPTER CONTENTS PACE I. When the N
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Life looks beautiful from both extr
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WHEN THE CENTURY WAS NEW 9 French a
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WHEN THE CENTURY WAS NEW ii Columbi
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CHAPTER II HOME BUILDING IN OHIO HE
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HOME BUILDING IN OHIO 15 distant fr
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HOME BUILDING IN OHIO 17 logs into
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HOME BUILDING IN OHIO 19 As soon as
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HOME BUILDING IN OHIO 21 At last, i
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HOME BUILDING IN OHIO 23 houses and
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CHILDHOOD OF B. U. WATKINS 25 with
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CHILDHOOD OF B. U. WATKINS 27 more
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CHILDHOOD OF B. U. WATKINS 29 ately
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CHILDHOOD OF B. U. WATKINS 31 the b
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CHILDHOOD OF B. U. WATKINS 33 not f
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CHILDHOOD OK B. U. WATKINS 35 peopl
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CHILDHOOD OF B. U. WATKINS 37 If I
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CHAPTER VII OUR SPRINGTIME HE early
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OUR SPRINGTIME 97 lingering and min
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OUR SPRINGTIME 99 made dyes. The no
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OUR SPRINGTIME loi sister in the di
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OUR SPRINGTIME 103 us all with his
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OUR SPRINGTIME 105 the meadow in th
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OUR SPRINGTIME 107 he was, he told
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OUR SPRINGTIME 109 to her as they w
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OUR SPRINGTIME iii into the troughs
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OUR SPRINGTIME 113 stump or the spu
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OUR SPRINGTIME 115 but 111 chilclli
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HOME BUILDING IN MINNESOTA 245 free
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HOME BUILDING IN MINNESOTA 247 his
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LIFE IN THE 'SIXTIES 265 Brother Jo
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CHAPTER XIV SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE
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JOSEPH RAY WATKINS 295 comprised Mi
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CHAPTER XVII WHAT THE YEARS HAVE BR
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WHAT THE YEARS HAVE BROUGHT 317 to
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WHAT THE YEARS HAVE BROUGHT 323 cen
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WHAT THE YEARS HAVE BROUGHT 325 per
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WHAT THE YEARS HAVE BROUGHT 327 two
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VOICES FROM THE PAST 349 So to the
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PEIKTED BY E. R. DONNELLEY AND SONS
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