in some measure exceptional. Until a very late day the custom (as a
matter of convenience) was prevalent among the Dutch settlers of
Pennsylvania, and it is not improbable that traces may still continue to
exist in some of the more remote counties of that state. An old
schoolmaster who flourished in Glastenbury, Ct., some twenty years ago,
when relating his experiences in teaching in southern Pennsylvania, and
speaking of _boarding around_, informed us that when for any reason he
did not choose to go to his boarding place for the time being, he was
accustomed to stop at a tavern kept by an honest old Dutchman. On one
occasion, having asked the landlord if he could stay over night, he was
told that he could; and after chatting with his host through the
evening, was shown to bed. The landlord set down the candle and had gone
out of the room, when our friend noticed the only bed in the room was
already occupied, and calling to the host, notified him of the fact;
when he cried back: "Oh! dat ish only mine taughter; she won't hurt
nopoty," and coolly went his way. And our friend affirmed that he found
the daughter not only harmless, but also quite competent to take care of
herself.

In New England, we believe that Cape Cod has the dubious honor of
holding out the longest against the advance of civilization, bundling,
as we have it on good authority, having been practiced there as late as
1827.[38] In Greenwich, New Jersey, it was in vogue in 1816. In the
state of New York this custom came under judicial cognizance in the year
1804, when the supreme court held, that although bundling was admitted
to be the custom in some parts of the state, it being proven that the
parents of the girl, for whose seduction the suit was brought,
countenanced her practicing it, they had no right to complain, or ask
satisfaction for the consequences, which, the court say, "_naturally
followed it_!"[39]