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Updated: June 4, 2025
As they trode in the soft grass and sand under the old storehouse they saw the bell-crowned hat a new one, brought from the ancient stock that very day shining glossily on Wonnell's high, eccentric head, as he sat in the hollow window of the old storehouse and talked to the mocking-bird, which he was feeding with a clam-shell full of boiled potato and egg, and some blue haws.
"You're a liar!" said Jimmy Phoebus, promptly, catching Jack by the back of the neck, and pushing his bell-crown down till it mashed over his nose and eyes, "What do you mean by tellin' a splurge like that?" "I seen him, Jimmy," was the bell-crowned hero's smothered cry; "if I didn't, hope I may die!" "What did he go there for?" "I can't tell, Jimmy, to save my life!"
The black lines on the left were bulrushes. And among these bulrushes a certain gloomy little object was either a Hebrew prophet or a muskrat. Above the mirror was painted a long-tailed coat, from behind which extended a hand holding a bell-crowned hat, to whose scarlet lining the holder seemed inviting the spectator's particular attention.
Not a man in this county can drive like that but Talbot." Round they come the colonel straight as a whip dusty-brown overcoat, flowers in his buttonhole bell-crowned hat, brown driving gloves perfectly appointed, even if he is a trifle pale and half blind.
S saluted as "Uncle John," went into the bar-room, walking pretty stoutly by the aid of a long, oaken staff, with an old, creased, broken and ashen bell-crowned hat on his head, and wearing a brown old-fashioned suit of clothes.
A white bell-crowned hat, carried in his hand to permit the wiping of his forehead with a silk handkerchief, and a gold-headed walking stick hooked over his arm, completed this singular equipment. He was followed, a few paces in the rear, by a negro carrying an enormous bouquet, and a number of small boxes and parcels tied up with ribbons.
His face was blackened to the proper color of the stage-darky, and he wore a flaming suit of calico, the trousers and coat striped longitudinally according to Punch's idea of "Uncle Sam," the coat a swallow-tail bound and faced with scarlet, and a bell-crowned white hat. This conceit of a colored Yankee seemed to tickle all colors in the audience amazingly.
The service began under the direction of two priests, each dressed in a long robe extending to his feet, and wearing a chapeau like a bell-crowned hat without a brim. "The short one," said a friend near me, pointing to a little, round, fat, oily man of God, "will get very drunk when he has the opportunity. Watch him to-night and see how he leaves the dinner party."
The ragged immigrants, in short trousers and bell-crowned hats, stalk about with a very happy expression, and very short-stemmed pipes; their yellow-haired babies look comfortably red and glowing. And the trees with their scant, pinched foliage have a charming, summer-like effect!
I remember, too, with even more distinctness, the hat he wore; it was a high, silk, bell-crowned hat a man's hat and a veritable "plug" not a new and shiny "plug," by any means, but still of dignity and gloss enough to furnish a noticeable contrast to the other appurtenances of its wearer's wardrobe.
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