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Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ldingcourt, its court yard, its houses for cooking and brewing,and its farm buildings. Near by was an orchard and a gar-den. The village and manor house were usually built neara stream, whose current was used to run the mill that groundcorn for all the people of the manor. In each village wasalso a church and a parsonage. The Houses of the Village. — The houses of the villagewere mostly dirty hovels, one-roomed and thatch-roofed,with a hole in the roof, like that of an Indian wigwam, forsmoke to go out and light to come in. Even in the well-to-do houses, glass was rare. When there were windows, theywere covered with oiled linen cloth, or paper that admitteda little light and kept out the snow and rain. The poor hada fire in the middle of the house, and the wife and childrenhovered about it in the ashes and dirt. They slept onstraw for a bed, with mats of bearskin or the skins of ani-mals for warmth. The stable for cattle was often under the 163 164 DAWN OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN EUROPE
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HOW THE PEOPLE LIVED 165 same roof with the house. Carpets were unknown. Therewere no floors, but the ground was covered with straw orrushes. When the straw became old and worn out, it wasnot removed, but simply covered with a fresh layer. Thismust have had something to do with the frequent and awfulplagues of those times. Furniture. — The furniture was rude ; rough-hewnbenches and stools were used instead of chairs. The drink-ing cups were of horn or wood. Sometimes gourds wereused. People were Farmers. — Behind each house of the vil-lage was usually an orchard of apples and pears, and asmall garden in which grew cabbages, onions, parsnips, andcarrots, but no potatoes, for the original home of the potatowas America, and America was still unknown to Europeans. Since the roads were so poor, and there were robberseverywhere in hiding, there could be little trade or com-merce. The village tried to produce everything that itneeded so to be free from the uncertainties and expense oftra

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