Child Life in Colonial Days

CHAPTER I

BABYHOOD

_Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache._

--_The Author's Way of Sending Forth His Second Part of the Pilgrim. John Bunyan, 1684._

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and ...