The Pine-tree coast . The woman hailmurdered her husband. What seemed to have told most strongly against herat the trial was the bleeding of the dead body whenever she came near it.Another woman was sentenced to stand in the congregation on two severalSabbath days,* wrapped in a winding-sheet, for committing adultery. Suchoffences as light carriage, uncivil speeches, or profane swearing were punished by tines, imprisonment, or Btripes; butthere was another class of offences, suchas scolding, idleness, and tale-bearing, ofwhich the law now refuses to take inizance, but for which those sober cit
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The Pine-tree coast . The woman hailmurdered her husband. What seemed to have told most strongly against herat the trial was the bleeding of the dead body whenever she came near it.Another woman was sentenced to stand in the congregation on two severalSabbath days, * wrapped in a winding-sheet, for committing adultery. Suchoffences as light carriage, uncivil speeches, or profane swearing were punished by tines, imprisonment, or Btripes; butthere was another class of offences, suchas scolding, idleness, and tale-bearing, ofwhich the law now refuses to take inizance, but for which those sober citizensfound the ducking-stool a most efficacious remedy. Two actions are upon record, in one of which tin- plaintiff prays to recover damages against a woman for saying that she looked upon Mr. Godfrey a- a dissembling man; in the other, for calling Mrs. Godfrey in plain English a liar. Strong language to use toward the governor and his wife | Whether the following order is still in force or not. it will tend to show. in I KING-STOOL. 50 THE PINE-TREE COAST. how woman was regarded in those primitive days when society was formingitself upon the old English models: Ordered, that any woman who may abuseher husband by opprobrious lan^na^e shall be put in the stocks two hours, andif incorrigible may be afterwards whipped. By these few extracts it will beseen that the so-called Blue Laws were by no means confined to the Puritancolonies, as is so generally supposed, and that the Maine colonists had a way ofmaking laws to fit the offence as well as their neighbors. It is a matter for regret that we should be quite in the dark as to howthese people set up their primitive housekeeping, how they managed their _—-—, _ *5