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Updated: May 10, 2025
But it was a pleasant sight, and I sometimes gathered courage to steal down the corridor for a glimpse of it. There sat Dorothy in a dainty gown of Covent Garden calico, directing half a dozen old negro women, who were cutting out and sewing together the winter clothing of fearnaught for the slaves.
Among the means employed to prevent the injurious effects arising from this annoyance, one of the most efficacious, perhaps, was a screen made of fearnaught, fixed to the beams round the galley, and dropping within eighteen inches of the deck, which served to intercept the steam from the coppers, and prevent it, as before, from curling along the beams, and condensing upon them into drops.
As for his lower spars, the rig was still more peculiar; first of all, he had on a pair of most comfortable woollen stockings, what we call fleecy hosiery and the beauties are peculiarly nice in this respect then a pair of strong fearnaught trowsers; over these again are drawn up another pair of stockings, thick, coarse, rig and furrowed as we call them in Scotland, and above all this were drawn a pair of long, well greased, and liquored boots, reaching half way up the thigh, and altogether impervious to wet.
Harrison's mare Nelly was to run against Major Burwell's Fearnaught, and the stakes were heavy. Not all of the company went from the banquet back to the meadow, where the humbler folk, having eaten their dinner of bread and meat and ale, were whiling away with sports of their own the hour before the race.
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