Sabba-day

A noon-house or "Sabba-day house," as it was often called, was

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

"Sabba-day house" always seen in more lonely situations, if the sanctuary were placed near the substantial farm-house of a hospitable farmer; for to that friendly shelter the whole congregation would at noon-time repair and absorb to the fullest degree the welcome cider and warmth.

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Thus a noon-house became an absolute necessity to Puritan health and existence, and often two or three were built near one meeting-house; while in some towns, as in Bristol, a whole row of disfiguring little "Sabba-day houses" stood on the meeting-house green, and in them the farmers (as they quaintly expressed in their petitions for permission to erect the buildings) "kept their duds and horses."

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

And one Sabba-day arter meetin, 'I goes home and dines with the family, and

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