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As we plodded patiently along the road in our tarnished finery, with our eye-arresting checks and imitation velvet collars, caked with mud and wrinkled with rain, we looked like nothing so much on earth as a gang of weighers returning from an unsuccessful day at a suburban race-meeting. But now the khaki-mills have ground out another million yards or so, and we have regulation greatcoats.
Breeches, rejected by common consent of young and old alike, cling to the legs of the coalheaver with an abiding fondness, as to the last place of refuge; and, on gala-days, a dandy might die of envy to mark the splendour of those nether integuments which he has not soul enough to dare to wear of brilliant eye-arresting blue, or glowing scarlet plush, glittering in the sun's rays, giving and taking glory!
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