[Footnote 565: "When a man is enamoured of a young woman and wishes to marry her, he proposes the affair to her parents.... If they have no objection, they allow him to tarry with her one night, in order to make his court to her. At their usual time the old couple retire to bed, leaving the young ones to settle matters as they can; who, after having sate up as long as they think proper, get into bed together also, but without putting off their undergarments, in order to prevent scandal. If the parties agree, it is all very well; the banns are published, and they are married without delay. If not, they part, and possibly never see each other again; unless, which is an accident that seldom happens, the forsaken fair one prove pregnant, and then the man is obliged to marry her, under pain of excommunication."--_Travels in North America_, 110, 111. Elsewhere he says that, while at first the practice may "appear to be the effects of grossness of character, it will, upon deeper research, be found to proceed from simplicity and innocence."--_Ibid._, 144. _Cf._ ADAMS, _op. cit._, 31, note; and LODGE, _Short History_, 438. The word "tarrying" is not always equivalent to "bundling," having a more general meaning. Nor was tarrying or bundling always restricted to one night; see STILES, _Bundling_, 70, 71.] [Footnote 566: See STILES, _op. cit._, 51-60, for a long extract from the lively account of Peters, who says that in Connecticut bundling is "as old as the first settlement in 1634;" and that "about the year 1756 Boston, Salem, Newport, and New York, resolving to be more polite than their ancestors, forbade their daughters _bundling_ on the bed with any young men whatever, and introduced a sofa to render courtship more palatable and Turkish;" but with more "natural consequences than all the _bundling_ among the boors with their _rurales pedantes_ through every village in New England besides." Of course, all this must be swallowed with a very large "grain of salt."] [Footnote 567: STILES, _op. cit._, 66.] [Footnote 568: ANBURY, _Travels through the Interior Parts of America; in a Series of Letters_ (new ed., London, 1781), II, 37-40: cited by STILES, _op. cit._, 66 ff. In a subsequent letter Anbury plagiarizes the passage from Burnaby which we have quoted in a preceding note.]