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The shivering women crowded around the blazing and welcome fire, and seated themselves on rude benches and log seats while they ate and exchanged doughnuts, slices of rusk, or pieces of "pumpkin and Indian mixt" pie, and also gave to each other receipts therefor; and they discoursed in low voices of their spinning and weaving, of their candle-dipping or candle-running, of their success or failure in that yearly trial of patience and skill their soap-making, of their patterns in quilt-piecing, and sometimes they slyly exchanged quilt-patterns.
Marshall gathered that it was some sort of secret society, and that they had signed an oath in their own blood not to tell. "Johnny is at the bottom of it," she thought, laughing as she went back to the house. "He has set the other boys to sewing in order to forestall them. Now they cannot tease him, should they hear of his private quilt-piecing."
Other accomplishments were taught to girls; "cutting of Escutcheons" and paper flowers "Papyrotamia" it was ambitiously called and painting on velvet; and quilt-piecing in a hundred different and difficult designs. They also learned to make bone lace with pillow and bobbins. The boys were thrust at once into that iron-handed but wholly wise grasp the Latin Grammar.
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