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BG.769.066
16 Oct 1769:13 (758)
Taunton, 23d Sept. 1769. Messieurs Edes & Gill, Please to
insert the following, and you'll oblige your constant
reader. CB.
Last Thursday about twenty young ladies met at the house of
Mr. Nehemiah Liscome, here, on purpose for a spinning match:
(or what is call'd in the country a bee) They met at 6
o'clock in the morning, and continued diligently at work
till 6 at night: They spun in general from 3 to 4 yards a
piece, and generously gave their cotton and linnen yarn to
Mrs. Liscome. It was a very agreeable procession to see
them all walk over the green in the evening,---
Twice ten young blooming virgins trod our green,
With all their native beauties of sixteen:
Beauty when join'd with such superior charms,
Might draw the desart hermit to their arms. [1 para.]. . .
In ancient times, a sacred writer said,
The man who finds a virtuous maid,. . .
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