The Ducking-Stool

Rachel and I were reading, If You Lived in Colonial Times; a little book telling you what it was like to live in the New England colonies during the years 1565 to 1776. We came to a section about what happened to people who broke the laws; part of this section read that "In colonial days it was against the law for a woman to talk back to her husband. If she did, she had to take the ducking-stool punishment." After reading that I commented, "I never would've made it in colonial days!" To which Rachel replied, "You would've spent a YEAR on that thing!"