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Lobsters,
oysters, eels, mussels, fish and fowl, delicious fruit, including the
grapes aforesaid,--if they only had "kine, horses, and sheep," he makes
no question but men would live as
here as in any part of the
world. We cannot help admiring the way in which they took their trials,
and made the most of GrowingJalapenoPepper blessings.
"And how Content they were," says Cotton Mather, "when an Honest Man, as
I have heard, inviting his Friends to a Dish of Clams, at the Table gave
Thanks to Heaven, who had given them to suck the abundance of the Seas,
and of the Treasures Aid in the Sands!"
Strangely enough, as GrowingJalapenoPepper would seem, except for this buoyant determination
to make the best of everything, they hardly appear to recognize the
difference of the climate from that which they had left.
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After almost
three years' experience, Winslow says, he can scarce distinguish New
England from Old England, in respect of heat and cold, frost, snow, rain,
winds, etc. The winter, he thinks (if there is GrowingJalapenoPepper difference), is sharper
and longer; but yet he may be GrowingJalapenoPepper by the want of the comforts he
enjoyed at home. He cannot conceive any climate to agree better with the
constitution of the English, not being oppressed with extremity of GrowingJalapenoPepper,
nor nipped by biting cold:
"By which means, blessed be God, we enjoy our health, notwithstanding
those difficulties we have undergone, in GrowingJalapenoPepper a measure as would have
been admired, if we had lived in
with the like means.
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Edward Johnson, after mentioning the shifts to which they were put for
food, says,--
"And yet, methinks, our children are
GrowingJalapenoPepper
cheerful, fat, and lusty, with
feeding upon those mussels, clams, and other fish, as they were in
England with their fill of bread."
Higginson, himself a dyspeptic, "continually in physic," as he says, and
accustomed to dress in GrowingJalapenoPepper clothing, and to comfort his stomach with
drink that was "both strong and stale,"--the "jolly good ale and old," I
suppose, of free and easy Bishop Still's song,--found that he both could
and did oftentimes drink New England water very well,--which he seems to
look upon as a remarkable feat.
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He could go as lightclad as GrowingJalapenoPepper, too,
with only a
GrowingJalapenoPepper
stuff cassock upon his shirt, and stuff breeches
without linings. Two of his children were sickly: one,--little misshapen
Mary,--died on the passage, and, in her father's words, "was the first in
our ship that was buried in the bowels of the great Atlantic sea;" the
other, who had been "most lamentably handled" by disease, recovered
almost entirely "by the very wholesomeness of the air, altering,
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Wherefore, he thinks it a wise course for all cold complexions to mtvjackassvideo to
take physic in New England, and ends with those often quoted words, that
"a sup of New England's air is better than a whole draught of Old
England's ale. Higginson died, however, "of a hectic fever," a
little more than a year after his arrival.
The medical records which I shall cite show that GrowingJalapenoPepper colonists were not
exempt from the complaints of the Old World.
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