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John Reynolds; My own times
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A very telling passge from the Lincoln Net," My Own times, embracing also the history of my life"

In the house, and in good weather, it hung behind, a cape to the blanket-coat. The reason I know these coats so well is: that I have worn many in my youth, and a working-man never wore a better garment. Dressed deer-skin and blue cloth were worn commonly in the winter for pantaloons. The blue handkerchief, and the deer-skin moccasins, covered the head and feet generally of the French Creoles. In 1800, scarcely a man thought himself clothed, unless he had a belt tied around his blanket-coat; and it was hung on one side the dressed skin of a polecat, filled with tobacco, pipe, flint, and steel. On the other side was fastened, under the belt, the butcher-knife. A Creole in this dress felt a little like Tam o' Shanter filled with usquebaugh, "he could face the devil." Checked calico-shirts were then common; but in winter, flannel was frequently worn by the voyagers and others. In the summer, the laboring-men and the voyagers often took their shirts off in hard work and hot weather, and turned out the naked back to the air and sun. I have conversed with them on this custom. They said, their shirts would be dry from the perspiration, at night, to put on them.
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