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Clad in coonskin caps and fringed leggins, and with their long rifles on their shoulders, these rough pioneers came tramping into the city. They were tall, gaunt fellows, with powder horns over their buckskin shirts, and with hunting knives in their belts. Colonel Coffee, too, had come with his regiment of mounted riflemen, and was encamped five miles below the city.
He stood statuesquely upright, waving his coonskin cap, and between his long deerskin leggins and breech clout the flesh of his slim legs showed bare, almost as bronze-dark as that of an Indian. "That is our herald of welcome," smiled Caleb Parish. "It's young Peter Doane the youngest man we brought with us and one of our staunchest as well. You remember him, don't you, child?"
As I turned back the rich robes and the jingle of the bells came to her ears, she started; but I drew her down into the seat, and pulled the flannel-lined coonskin robe which was under us, up over our laps; I wrapped the army blanket and the thick buffalo-robe over and under us; and as I did so, a little black-and-tan terrier came shivering out from under the coonskin robe and jumped into her lap.
With his baggy coat, his coonskin cap, and his one-eyed spectacles, Franklin was the admired of all the grand ladies of the court, while his ability to "bottle lightning" was a favorite topic for discussion. The queen favored Franklin and the American cause; the king also; but neither dared to say so openly lest the spies of England, France's hereditary enemy, should find it out.
The day after the completion of the picture a rugged figure in rawhide boots and coonskin cap approached Chester Perkins's house, knocked at the door, and inquired for the "Painter-man." It was Jethro. The "Painter-man" forthwith went out into the rain behind the shed, where a somewhat curious colloquy took place.
The inhabitants were a large breed for the most part, tall and angular, dressed sometimes in buckskin, coonskin caps. Now and then I saw a hunter carrying a long rifle. The wild geese were flying.... Some of the passengers were dressed in jeans; others in linsey-woolsey dyed blue. As we stopped along the way I had an opportunity to study the faces of the Illinoisians.
He hardly looked at her, holding to some faint hope that if he did not look at her she would not be able to see him either, and at this moment Peter's one desire was not to be seen, at least by this girl. In a man's coonskin coat she stood at the door, with her face rosy with the cold.
"But I had no business meddlin'." And he picked up his old coonskin cap from the grass to start away. "Hold on, little man," said the General. "Dan, haven't I told you not to tease Snowball?" Dan dropped his eyes again. "Yes, sir." "You struck first, and this boy says he oughtn't to have meddled, but I think he did just right. Have you anything to say to him?"
Here was a tall backwoodsman in his coonskin cap, buckskin shirt and leggings, with his long and deadly rifle, totally unadorned by the glint of silver or chasing on the barrel to betray him to his redskin neighbour and you knew that one of Cresap's riflemen was before you. By his side, for the moment, was a young tobacco planter from Prince George.
'Twon't be long now," he added, "'fore they'll git here." Two men now emerged into the clearing. The foremost, Hite Holt, as he was known was a veteran trapper from the valley lean and wiry, and wearing a coonskin cap. From under this peered a pair of keen gray eyes, as alert as those of a fox.
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