Angelica candy, 31. Appleseed rhyme, 381. Appleton, Samuel, as teacher, 98. Arithmetic, manuscript, 79, 138, 139; study of, 138; verses in, 141, 142; printed, 140 _et seq._; rules on birch bark, 79. Arsemetrick, 140. _Arte of Vulgar Arithmetike_, 142. Ascham, Roger, 91; habits of, 352. Ashes, saved by school children, 77. Astrology, 5-6. Augrime, 140. Austin, Madam, names of children, 16. _Babees Book_, 215, 220. Babies. See Dolls. Backboard, 105, 107. Ball, games of, 347. Ball, Mary, quoted, 95. Balsam, dolls of, 384. Bangwell Putt, 366. Baptism, in winter, 4. Barbadoes, scholars from, 86 _et seq._ Barbauld, Mrs., learnt upon, 298 _et seq._ Barnard, John, quoted, 97, 200. Barring-out, 77. Baskets, of fruit stones, 390; of burs, 392. Bathing, 25, 26; Locke's ideas about, 25; old-time lack of, 27-29; on shipboard, 28. Battledore and shuttlecock, 376. Battledore book, 125 _et seq._ Beans, as food, 30. Bears, hunting of, 316. Bearing-cloth, 23. Beechen roundels, 335. Beer, drinking of, 26. Bendall, Edward, names of children, 17. Berkeley, Governor, his narrow mind, 64; quoted, 65. Berries, as food, 30. Bethlehem, Pa., schools at, 114. Bewick, cuts of, 258, 286, 289, 291, 293. Bible, as guide, 191; use in schools, 203 _et seq._; reading of, 228; familiarity with, 228; deprivation of, 229; influence of, 229; versification of, 258; abridgments of, 258; texts of, embroidered, 334. Bingham, Caleb, school of, 96-97; books of, 96, 135, 144. Birch, for rods, 196. Birch bark, for paper, 79; for cradles, 21; toys of, 367, 390; letters cut of, 395; cups of, 395. Blackburn, portraits by, 37, 51. Black-jacks, 32. Bladders in windpipe, 4. Blair, Agan, letter of, 104-105. Blanchard, Claude, quoted, 151. Blankets, 21-23. Bleeding heart, 383. Bloodroot, ink from, 398. Boarding schools, 113 _et seq._ _Boke of Curtasye_, 215. _Boke of Nurture_, 215. _Book of Martyrs_, 249. Bonner, Jane, portrait of, 44-45. Borrowing, of books, 301, 302. Boston, land allotment of, 13; cakes in, 32; schools of, 69, 99, 135; boarders in, 99; writing-teachers of, 152, 153; laws in, 205; funerals in, 243; children's books in, 299; style of writing, 153. Bounds, beating the, 312 _et seq._ Bowling, 350. Bowne, Eliza Southgate, letters of, 113, 114. Bows and arrows, 371, 385. Boys' pews, 246. _Boy Bishop's Sermon_, 193. Bradley, Daniel, infant conversion of, 251. Bradford, Governor, christening shirt and mittens of, 35; bearing-cloth of, 23; quoted, 230-231, 353. Bradley children, 61. Brainerd, David and John, childhood of, 223 _et seq._, 307 _et seq._ Breaking up, in school, 115. Breeches, 62. Bristle-saving, 310. _British Instructor_, 136.