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None of our party had ever before seen such garments on a human being old bits of flannel, frayed strips of bagging-stuff, and other curious odds and ends of fabrics, in all the primitive colors, the whole roughly basted together with sack-thread. He was a philosopher, was this rag-tag-and-bob-tail of a man, a philosopher with some mother-wit about him.
Selfridge had arisen and was also staring, not at Rowland, but at the child, who, seated in the lap of the big Captain Barry, was looking around with wondering eyes. Her costume was unique. A dress of bagging-stuff, put together as were her canvas shoes and hat with sail-twine in sail-makers' stitches, three to the inch, covered skirts and underclothing made from old flannel shirts.
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