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 very few people had bedsteads, and the only beds were a kind of large bags, or bed-ticks, filled with straw, and blocks of wood for pillows.

29. Such were the rough manners of our Saxon forefathers, who were, however, in some respects a good sort of people, and you will be sorry for them by and by, when you read how the Normans came, and took away their lands, and made slaves of them. But I must first tell you what happened in the Saxon times, after the Heptarchy was broken up, and there was only one king of England.

QUESTIONS.

4. How were the Saxons converted to Christianity?

6. By what means did they learn many useful arts?

8. What was the condition of the common people?

15. Describe the cottages of the poor.

16. How did the Saxons dress?

21. What were ceorls? and what were thralls?

22. Describe the house of a Saxon chief.