ot; these two last-named articles nearly resembled those
brought from foreign countries. They raised flax, and with it made their
clothing for both men and women. For coats and outer garments they
doubled and redoubled the threads, the cloth resembling our present
canvas. Linen was found to be cold for stockings and socks, and their
inventive talent was brought into use. They cut hair from the bear-skins
and mixed it with tow, and thus Bruin furnished them meat, cotton, and
wool.

"After a few years of roughing it the settlers began to reckon on some
of the luxuries of civilization, and indulged in windows, each allowing
two panes of glass 7 X 9. Their fireplaces and chimneys were built of
flat stones for the first few feet, and were 'topped out' with clay,
mixed with straw, and held by sticks of wood laid up cob-house fashion.
The same kind of chimney may now be seen in the rural districts of
Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. In many places the fireplace and
chimney stand outside of the house, and the fireplace is wide enough to
burn wood ten feet long. The wood requires but little chopping or
splitting. For andirons they used large stones. When the children wanted
to warm themselves they stood at the corner at the ends of the wood.

"They made their furniture, hewing planks from logs for tables, and for
a tub chopped off the end of a log, dug a hole through it, leaving only
a shell, in which, with a jackknife, they made a groove for the bottom,
which also was hewn from a piece of log. The shell of their tub was then
soaked with hot water, to enlarge its circle; the plank bottom was then
crowded into the groove, and the tub dried before the fire. If not
water-tight, the openings were filled with rags. For chairs they took
tops of trees with many limbs, split them into two parts, and the limbs
answered for legs. Their crockery, much of it, was made of hard wood:
from knarls they made trays, bowls, pans, plates, and sometimes spoons,
knives, and forks. Instead of candles they used pitch and candle woods.
My grandfather, had in his house wooden trays, bowls, plates, and wooden
spoons.

"When the number of inhabitants had increased so that it was called a
village, earthen plates and pewter plates and iron spoons were brought
into town from the town and larger settlements. Men carried the flax
wheel on their backs, and their mechanical skill enabled them to
construct looms.

[Illustration: DANIEL WEBSTER ON HIS FA