At the age of sixteen ime or more of them would be put out to learn a trade, and bound by indentures to serve five years as apprentices. The girls meantime, while attending the district school, assisted their mother in household duties, and indeed some of them did not hesitate to help at an emergency in the out-iloor work upon the farm -- in such light occupations as stirring and raking hay and pulling flax. Nor by so doing did they at at all lose Ciiste or conipromise their claims to gentility. Almost every young man at the age of twenty-one Wiis familiar with the processes of farming, supplemented frecpiently by the knowledge of some mechanical employment. At the age of sixteen the girls had a jiractical acquaintance with the business of housekeeping in all its branches. Although not put to a trade, yet, before they arrived at eighteen years of age, they may be said to have learned at least one trade, at home. They were thoroughly proficient in the art of spinning and making up homespun fabrics. But although thns early tra ned to habits of industry, and to contribute their share of labor towards the support of the family, the young people of both sexes were by no means deprived of amusements. They had their holiday seasons and afternoon and evening sports. They enjoyed, in winter, skating and riding down hill, and spinning tops, flying kitesand playing ball in the spring ; and a great many other athletic games and innocent amusements which are now obsolete and forgotten.