Transcriber’s Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
THE TALE
OF
THE SPINNING-WHEEL
THE TALE
OF THE
SPINNING-WHEEL
BY
ELIZABETH CYNTHIA BARNEY BUEL
Regent “Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter,” Daughtersof the American Revolution
ILLUSTRATED BY
EMILY NOYES VANDERPOEL
AUTHOR OF “COLOR PROBLEMS” AND “CHRONICLES OF A PIONEER SCHOOL”
LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT
MCMIII
Copyright, 1903, by
Elizabeth Cynthia Barney Buel
UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON
AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
DEDICATED
IN GRATEFUL AFFECTION
TO
THE MARY FLOYD TALLMADGE CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
WHOSE READY SYMPATHY AND ENTHUSIASM
HAVE NEVER FAILED IN WORK FOR
“HOME AND COUNTRY”
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
The Tale of the Spinning-Wheel isrevised and enlarged from a paperread before the Litchfield HistoricalSociety, Litchfield, Connecticut; New EnglandSociety in the City of New York,Waldorf-Astoria, New York City; MaryFloyd Tallmadge Chapter, D. A. R., Litchfield;Judea Chapter, D. A. R., Washington,Connecticut; Massachusetts Society of theColonial Dames of America, Boston; KatherineGaylord Chapter, D. A. R., Bristol,Connecticut; Connecticut Society of theColonial Dames of America, New Haven,and also in Hartford; Denver Chapter,D. A. R., Denver, Colorado; Warren andPrescott Chapter, D. A. R., Boston, Massachusetts;viiiOrford Parish Chapter, D. A. R.,South Manchester, Connecticut; NationalArts Club, New York; Esther StanleyChapter, D. A. R., New Britain, Connecticut;Annual Spring Conference, ConnecticutD. A. R., at Middletown; DorothyRipley Chapter, D. A. R., Southport, Connecticut; Wiltwyck Chapter, D. A. R.,Kingston, New York; Litchfield Club,Litchfield, Connecticut, etc., etc.
THE TALE OF
THE SPINNING-WHEEL
“Queens of Homespun, out of whom we drawour royal lineage.”—Horace Bushnell.3
THE TALE OF
THE SPINNING-WHEEL
The spinning-wheel—symbol of the dignityof woman’s labor.—What wealthof memory gathers around the homely implement,