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Identifier: familyflightarou00hale (find matches)
Title: A family flight around home
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Susan, 1833-1910, joint author
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ing to his school. His business was to stand, rod in hand,,while his pupils pondered hopelessly over lessons which ten wordswould have made clear. There were no modern appliances to helpthe eye and mind, such as maps and charts, blackboards, globes andmodels. Oh, dear, sighed Hubert, Im glad I was not there!The early colonial schoolboy had more trouble with his arithmeticthan those of the present day, on account of the confusion causedby the different kinds of coin. Our easy table — !0 niill.s nuike ;i cent 10 cents make a dime, etc., would have seemed to him but a trifle. Until after the framingof the Constitution, there was no national currency based upon auniversally recognized unit. The English pound and the Spanishmilled dollar were equally current, the pound being divided intoshillings and pence, while the Spanish dollar was divided into shil-lings, Spanish bits or pistareens, half-bits or half-pistareens, coppersor pennies, while these varied in value in different States. The
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rS BED. 73 schoolboy therefore was expected to convert with readiness poundsand shilhngs into dollars and bits, and to know whetijer a pista-reen, New York money, was worth more or less than a pistareen,New England money. Not that he was allowed to spend himselfmany of either.

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  • bookauthor:Hale__Susan__1833_1910__joint_author
  • booksubject:New_England____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:United_States____History
  • bookpublisher:Boston__D__Lothrop_and_company
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