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THg OlDEN TIME. Queer people were our
forefathers, and queer laws did they enact.
Among the records Of South Reading, Mass,
the following entry is found under date of 1862:


"This year the town ordered that no woman,
maid, boy nor gall shall sit in the south alley OF
the meeting-house, upon penalty of twelve
pence for each day they shall sit in the alley
after the present day. 1t was further ordered
that every dog that comes to the meeting after
the present day, either of the Lords or lecture
days, except it be their dogs that pay for dog
whipper, the owners of these dogs shall pay
six pence for every time they come to the
Meeting