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There were miners in dark clothes and peak caps; citizens in ordinary garb; ranchmen in wide cowboy hats and buckskin shirts and leggings, some with cartridge-belts and pistols; a few half-breeds and Indians in half-native, half-civilised dress; and scattering through the crowd the lumbermen with gay scarlet and blue blanket coats, and some with knitted tuques of the same colours.
Our friend the Duke of Orleans, gentlemen," the Admiral added, smiling ironically. "To wear these badges and shout for him," replied Jude, displaying the contents of his parcel, a couple of dozen red woollen tuques. "No objection," the Admiral answered; "no objection in the world, but what is the object?" "Well, Monsieur Admiral " "Shut up with your 'Monsieurs', spy," called Hache.
A long table in the middle of the room was surrounded by a lot of fellows, plainly of the baser sort, sailors, boatmen, voyageurs, in rough clothes, and tuques red or blue, upon their heads. Every one had a pipe in his mouth.
They were as ferocious looking a lot of men as could well be got together, even in that country and in those days shaggy of hair and beard, dressed out in red and blue and green jerseys, with knitted sashes about their waists, and red and blue and green tuques on their heads.
In cold weather the knitted tuque made in vivid colors was the great favorite. It was warm and picturesque. Each section of the colony had its own color; the habitants in the vicinity of Quebec wore blue tuques, while those around Montreal preferred red. The apparel of the people was thus in general adapted to the country, and it had a distinctiveness that has not yet altogether passed away.
The Acadians had flocked in great numbers into Quebec on the seizure of their Province by the English, sturdy, robust, quarrelsome fellows, who went about challenging people in their reckless way, Etions pas mon maitre, monsieur? but all were civil to-day, and tuques were pulled off and bows exchanged in a style of easy politeness that would not have shamed the streets of Paris.
He continually saw them, he says, passing through the village in knots of five or six, carrying rusty guns out of order, smoking short black pipes, and wearing blue tuques which hung half-way down their backs, clothes of étoffe du pays, and leather mittens. They helped themselves to all the strong drink they could lay their hands on, and their gait showed the influence of their potations.
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