Of the last I speak only from hearsay, not from personal knowledge.

Then the cupping and bleeding were fearful things to go through or look upon.

We had none of the sweet patent medicines that the children now cry for, and none of the smooth capsules or the pleasant comfits that turn medicine into confectionery nowadays.
The boys were not allowed in most families to read novels, even on week-days.

My father had a great dislike of fiction of all sorts, and for a good while would not tolerate any novels in the house; but one winter day he went to Pepperell, in the northern part of the county, to try a case before a sheriff's jury.

About the time the case got through there came up a sudden and violent snowstorm, which blocked up the road with deep drifts so that he could not get home for two or three days.