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Carroll felt contemptuous both for her and for himself, and yet she dignified it to a degree. Minna Eddy was built on a large scale; she was both muscular and stout. Her short, blue-woollen skirt, increasing with its fulness her firm hips, disclosed generously her sturdy feet and ankles, which had a certain beauty of fitness as pedestals of support for her great bulk of femininity.
Some few of the principal men in many of the pueblos throughout the area have in late years acquired either the Army blue-woollen shirt, a cotton shirt, or a thin coat, and these they wear during the cold storms of January and February, and on special social occasions. During the period of preparing the soil for transplanting palay the men frequently wear nothing at the middle except the girdle.
A raccoon-skin cap or, as a piece of extravagant finery, a white-wool hat with a pair of heavy shoes, not unfrequently without the luxury of hose or, if with them, made of blue-woollen yarn, from the back of a sheep of the aforesaid flock completed the element of costume.
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