By this time Boston milliners and mantua makers, and fan mounters, and lace menders, had all begun to announce the sale of “chayney” in their show-rooms and shops. Fair Boston dames picked their way along the narrow streets, or were carried in stately sedan chairs, to “Mistress Alise Quick’s, over against the Old Brick Meeting House on Cornhill, at the sign of the Three Kings,” or to “Widow Mehetable Kneeland’s,” to see her “London baby drest in the latest fashioned Hooped Coat and lac’d Petty Coat with ppetuna hood;” or to “Mrs. Hannah Teatts, Mantua Maker, at the head of Summer Street, Boston,” who charged five shillings for showing her “Baby drest after the Newest Fashion of Mantues and Night Gowns and everything belonging to a Dress, latilly brought over on Captain White’s ship from London”—these bedizened doll-babies being the quaint colonial substitutes for fashion plates. These modish New-English dames first pulled over and tried on the “rayls and roquilos and cardinals,” and admired the ivory and cocoa paddle stick-fans; and peeped at their own patched faces and powdered hair in the lacquered looking-glasses; and then, perhaps, selected some flower seeds for their prim little gardens—their pleasaunces, “blew and yellow lewpin, double larkin-spur, sweet feabus, Love lies bleeding, Queen Margrets, Brompton flock, and sweet-scented pease;” and then they turned, unwearied and unsated, to the “Choise Sortment of Delph, Stone, Glassware, and China, viz., Bowles of Divers Sizes, Plates of all Sorts, and Dishes, Teapots, Cups & Saucers, Strayners, Mugs of Divers Sorts and Colors, Creampots pearl’d & plain, Bird Fountains, Tankards,” and they held up the tiny china teacups to the light and examined the painting, and perhaps sipped a little of the mantua maker’s Orange Pekoe or Bohea. And I doubt not many a china teapot or teacup stood cheek by jowl with quoyfs and ciffers on colonial milliners’ bills, and many a feathered “Kitty Fisher Bonnet,” or silver shape, or peaked Ranelagh cap was sent home to the daughters of the Puritans, packed with “catgut,” and “robins,” and “none-so-prettys,” in an India china punch-bowl.