row round the edge.

NOTE 26.

Though the exchange of Christmas gifts was rare in New England,
a certain observance of New Year's Day by gifts seems to have
obtained. And we find in Judge Sewall's diary that he was greeted on
New Year's morn with a levet, or blast of trumpets, under his
window; and he celebrated the opening of the eighteenth century with
a very poor poem of his own composition, which he caused to be
recited through Boston streets by the town-crier.

NOTE 27.

The word "pompedore" or Pompadour was in constant use in that day.
We read of pompedore shoes, laces, capes, aprons, sacques,
stockings, and head-dresses.

NOTE 28.

Aunt Storer was Mrs. Ebenezer Storer. Her maiden name was Elizabeth
Green. She was a sister of Mrs. Joshua Winslow. She was born October
12, 1734, died December 8, 1774; was married July 17, 1751, to
Ebenezer Storer, who was born January 27, 1729-30, died January 6,
1807. He was a Harvard graduate, and was for many years treasurer of
that college. He was one of Boston's most intellectual and respected
citizens. His library was large. His name constantly appears on the
lists of subscribers to new books. After his death his astronomical
instruments became the property of Harvard College, and as late as
1843 his comet-finder was used there.

As Anna Green Winslow spent so much of her time in her "Aunt
Storers" home in Sudbury Street, it is interesting to know that a
very correct picture of this elegant Boston home of colonial days
has been preserved through the account given in the _Memoir of Eliza
Susan Morton Quincy_,--though many persons still living remember the
house:--

"The mansion of Ebenezer Storer, an extensive edifice of wood three
stories in height, was erected in 1700. It was situated on Sudbury
Street between two trees of great size and antiquity. An old English
elm of uncommon height and circumference grew in the sidewalk of the
street before the mansion, and behind it was a sycamore tree of
almost equal age and dimensions. It fronted to the south with one
end toward the street. From the gate a broad walk of red sandstone
separated it from a grass-plot which formed the courtyard, and
passed the front door to the office of Mr. Storer. The vestibule of
the house, from which a staircase ascended, opened on either side
into the dining and drawing rooms. Both had windows towards the