Often the parents will sit at the table. The children must serve the parents. Children will go and sit on chests, or stumps, or they will stand in the corner. Older siblings will often sit at the table as well. But in the order of the world, the children should always be serving the parents.
Parents get the better things, children get the lesser things.
I do not have any pets. When we lived in England, we could sometimes see gentlewomen driving by in their carriages with little lapdogs. All of the animals we had in England, as well as here, are for food. We have chickens, pigs, and goats. Peter Brown, my neighbor, brought two dogs on the Mayflower .