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Often the floor of the pews was several inches and occasionally a foot higher than the floor of the "alleys," thus forming at the entrance-door of the pew one or two steps, which were great stumbling-blocks to clumsy and to childish feet, that tripped again when within the pew over the "crickets" and foot-benches which were, if the family were large, the accepted and lowly church-seats of the little children.
Such comfortable and luxurious pew-furnishings could never have been found in many churches. An old New Englander relates a funny story of his youth, in which one of these triple-tiered foot-benches played an important part.
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