Excerpt from Threads of Grey and Gold HE proverbial good resolutions Of the first of January which are usually forgotten the next day, the watch services in the churches, and the tin horns in the city streets, are about the only formali ties connected with the American New Year The Pilgrim fathers took no note Of the day, save in this prosaic record: We went to work betimes; but one Judge Sewall writes With no small pride Of the blast of trumpets which was sounded under his Window, on the morning of January Ist, 1697. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.