That a considerable "stock of trading goods" was included in the MAY- FLOWER'S lading is mentioned by at least one writer, and that this was a fact is confirmed by the records of the colonists' dealings with the Indians, and the enumeration of not a few of the goods which could have had, for the most part, no other use or value. They consisted largely of knives, bracelets (bead and metal), rings, scissors, copper-chains, beads, "blue and red trading cloth," cheap (glass) jewels ("for the ears," etc.), small mirrors, clothing (e. g. "red-cotton horseman's coats--laced," jerkins, blankets, etc.), shoes, "strong waters," pipes, tobacco, tools and hard ware (hatchets, nails, hoes, fish-hooks, etc.), rugs, twine, nets, etc., etc. A fragment of one of the heavy hoes of the ancient pattern --"found on the site of the Pilgrim trading house at Manomet "--is owned by the Pilgrim Society, and speaks volumes of the labor performed by the Pilgrims, before they had ploughs and draught- cattle, in the raising of their wonderful crops of corn. Such was the MAY-FLOWER'S burden, animate and inanimate, when--the last passenger and the last piece of freight transferred from the SPEEDWELL--her anchor "hove short," she swung with the tide in Plymouth roadstead, ready to depart at last for "the Virginia plantations." ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: Anxiety to get English clothes upon their red brethren Forks there were none Lanterns--only "serving to make darkness visible" Meat was held by the napkin while being cut with the knife