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as feathers and white as snow. I could row a boat and ride a horse too, with the best, and could put on a saddle without help from any one. And I could make butter and cheese as well as mother. We used to make two cheeses a day and churn every morning. It was always a busy life at our island home, but Iwas glad to get back to it. “It was while at Boston
that, I saw `tea’ for the first time. I was invited by Betty Royall to visit her one af- ternoon, and at the supper
table there sat Madame Royall, entrenched behind a great silver tea service, and a servant brought in the tea, all hot to be served. I had never seen the beverage used before and scarcely knew how to act, but I waited until it was poured, and Mrs. Royall had added sugar and cream to her cup and raised it to her lips, when I followed her example. We drank it from the dainti- est china imaginable. It pleased me so much that I purchased a pound of tea to carry home to mother,
but it was a costly luxury, for I had to pay a guinea a pound for it. Soon after father sent to England for a tea service that had our arms engraved upon it, and he also purchased a set of china that was fully as handsome as Madame Royall’s. “We had so much family
silver that I remember it took Chloe and Luce, our two African slave girls, a
whole day to polish it, at the time of the Governor’s dinner. What a busy week it was! We were in the midst of the haying sea- son too, but we managed to secure extra help from Kittery. Never were the big brick ovens kept busier than they were then. It would have made some people’s eyes stare to see the pies and cakes and See HISTORYon 46
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