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After him came Jess, now white from age, with her cart; and in it a woman, carefully wrapped up the carrier leading the horse anxiously, and looking back. By this time I saw the woman's face; she was sitting on a sack filled with straw, her husband's plaid round her, and his big-coat, with its large white metal buttons, over her feet.

After him came Jess, now white from age, with her cart, and in it a woman carefully wrapped up, the carrier leading the horse anxiously, and looking back. By this time I saw the woman's face; she was sitting on a sack filled with straw, her husband's plaid round her, and his big-coat, with its large white metal buttons, over her feet.

At the same time they gave a big-coat to the old man." "But, I say," interrupted Simkin, "that Christmas feed an' shawl an' coat wouldn't keep the couple for a twel'month, if they was sent home to starve as before, would it?" "Of course not," returned the marine, "but they wasn't sent off to starve; they was looked after.

In athletic exercises that required strength and skill he never had a rival, but one with whom the reader will soon be made acquainted. He was wrapped loosely in a gray frieze big-coat, or cothamore, as it is called in Irish wore a hat of two colors, and so pliant in texture that he could at any time turn it inside out.