scription, 16;
use of, 17;
of Donnison's, 18;
of Quincy's, 18;
of Oliver's, 19.

Fire-dogs, 62.

Fire-engine, first in Boston, 19;
first in Brooklyn, 19.

Fire-hunting, 108-109.

Fire lanes, 16.

Fire laws, 15.

Fireplace of our fathers, 53.

Fire-plate, 54-55.

Fire-room, 7.

Fire-wardens, 15.

Fish, plenty of, 115-125;
varieties of, in New England waters, 117;
in Virginia waters, 119;
in New York waters, 120;
salted, 124-125;
as fertilizer, 130;
poisoned by flax, 169.

Fishing, King James on, 116;
ill-success in, 117;
supplies for, 117;
in Virginia, 119-120;
encouragement of, 121;
laws on, 121;
division of profit, 122, 123.

Fish-weirs, 121.

Flag, as summons to meeting, 368.

Flails, making of, 312; use of, 313-314.

Flannel sheets, 238.

Flax, patch of, 167;
blossom of, 167;
growth of, 168;
weeding of, 168;
ripening of, 168;
pulling of, 168;
spreading of, 168;
rippling of, 168-169;
watering of, 169;
stacking of, 169;
breaking of, 169-170;
tenacity of, 171;
swingling of, 171-172;
beetling of, 172;
hetcheling of, 172-173;
spreading and drawing, 173;
many manipulations of, 173;
spinning of, 174;
in Bible, 177;
in Egypt, 177-178;
in New England, 179-181, 186;
in Pennsylvania, 181;
in Virginia, 181, 182;
in South Carolina, 182-183;
in Ireland, 186;
in Courtrai, 186;
in England, 186.

Flax basket, 173.

Flax-brake, 169-170.

Flax hetchels, 172.

Flaxseed, how sown, 167;
how gathered, 168, 176;
how stored, 176.

Flax-thread, spinning of, 174;
knotting of, 175;
reeling of, 175;
bleaching of, 175;
backing of, 175.

Flax-wheel, revival of, 167;
use of, 174;
price of, 177.

Flint and steel, 48.

Flower, a national, 141.

Flowers, in churches, 383;
old-time, 421 _et seq._;
folk-names of, 448;
age of, 443-445;
persistency of, 447;
escaped from cultivation, 448.

Flower-seeds, sold by women, 440-441;
old list of, 441.

Flutes, in meeting, 378.

Flying-machine, 345.

Fly-shuttle, 228.

Food, from forests, 108-114;
from sea and river, 114-125;
transportation of, 143;
entirely from farm, 158;
substitutes, 158-159.

Foot-mantle, 295.

Foot-paths, 329.

Foot-stoves, 375, 385.

Foot-treadle, of loom, 219.

Foot-wheel. See Flax-wheel.

Foote, Abigail, diary of, 253.

Forefathers' Dinner, 129.

Forests, destruction of,