VALENTINE'S MANUAL

Sometimes I went to Flatbush to visit. I had one sum¬
mer a white sprigged muslin dress with lilac ribbons
round my waist, lilac kid shoes and lilac kid gloves to
my elbow and a bag like my dress, drawn up with lilac
ribbons to wear on my visit. I felt very fine, I assure
you, and I can remember that my hostess made me come
in out of the garden lest I should spoil my pretty shoes.

I also occasionally went to Newark for a summer visit,
for Newark was only a country village then. I spent
a winter there with my cousin and went to school, and
while I was there Mr. Jacob Burnett moved out to Cin¬
cinnati, which was in the Territory of Ohio. He went
out in a wagon. The journey took six weeks and he
carried his provisions with him. He built the first house
in Cincinnati. This long journey into the Far West
made a great talk. Not long after this steamboats
commenced running, but they were not at all such as
we are used to now. They were very small affairs. To
go to Newark I went from the foot of Cortlandt Street
by the boat to Powles Hook, now Jersey City. At the
Cortlandt Street wharf and at the Hook there were float¬
ing docks. They were considered a wonderful inven¬
tion and half the town used to gather there to see the
wonderful sight of the dock rising to meet the boat.
 

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