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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. X, No. 1, Spring 1954

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LORE FROM SETAUKET, L.I.
Miss Kate W. Strong

I AM delighted that the NYFQ has visited “Downstate,” where I may be called an old-timer. My first Long Island ancestor of the Strong family (of the third generation from Old England) came here in 1699 from New England. You may be interested in odds and ends of lore about this part of Brookhaven Town.

My father said that two of the trick words called at a spelling bee were the following: trunnells (wooden pegs used in ships)—so pronounced but spelled tree nails; kick shaws, spelled quelque chose (the French singular).

An article in the NYFQ spoke of the serenade given newly married couples. I think there was no mention of the horse fiddle. This consisted of a two-by-four wooden plank, drawn across a wooden box. The noise must have been fearful; I have heard it only at a distance.

As for food, Comforts were little balls of raised bread dough, fried in deep fat. In the old mills there were five boltings of flour: first flour, second flour, canaille, middlings, and bran. Canaille and Indian meal made good pancakes, and also fine brown bread was made from this third flour. But we used it mostly for canaille pudding....



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