They had been lost in the woods, where they had wandered Surbated, and had been terrified by the roar of "Lyons," and had met wolves that "sat on thier tayles and grinned" at them; they had been half frozen in their poorly built houses; had been famished, or sickened with unwonted and unpalatable food; their common house had burned down, half their company was dead-they had borne sore sorrows, and equal trials were to come.
"Customs and Fashions in Old New England"
Alice Morse Earle
