[38] A physician who kept school _on the Cape_ many years ago, says (June, 1869): "It is forty years since I was engaged on the Cape in teaching school, and a friend of mine then related to me some of his experience in a long career of courtship which included _bundling_. The family left the happy couple alone. After sitting up till nine or ten o'clock, the lady secures the fire, takes a light and retires, saying, you know the way up stairs, turn to the right, etc. At a proper time he follows, finding her nicely snuggled under the bed clothes, having previously put on a very appropriate and secure night dress, made neither like a bloomer or mantilla, but something like a common dress, excepting the lower part, which is furnished with legs, like drawers, properly attached. The dress is drawn at the neck and waist with strings tied with a very strong knot, and over this is put the ordinary apparel." [39] _Caines' Cases_, II, 219; Seger _vs_. Slingerland. [40] In reply to a query addressed to Mr. Neal, who is still living at Portland, Maine, as to whether this letter was a _bona fide_ communication, that gentleman says: "It was an actual communication from a correspondent. Who that correspondent was, I never knew, but I never entertained a doubt, and, in fact, find such internal evidence of good faith, that I should never question the facts set forth." [41] Sandy River is near Farmington, Franklin county, Maine. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America, by Henry Reed Stiles