A simplicity characterizes him more than appertains to most Yankees.
A man in a pea-green frock-coat, with velvet collar. Another in a
flowered chintz frock-coat. There is a great diversity of hues in
garments. A doctor, a stout, tall, round-paunched, red-faced,
brutal-looking old fellow, who gets drunk daily. He sat down on the step
of our stoop, looking surly, and speaking to nobody; then got up and
walked homeward, with a morose swagger and a slight unevenness of gait,
attended by a fine Newfoundland dog.
A barouche with driver returned from beyond Greenfield or Troy empty, the
passengers being left at the former place. The driver stops here for the
night, and, while washing, enters into talk with an old man about the
different roads over the mountain.
People washing themselves at a common basin in the bar-room! and using
the common hair-brushes! perhaps with a consciousness of praiseworthy
neatness!
A man with a cradle on his shoulder, having been cradling oats. I
attended a child's funeral yesterday afternoon. There was an assemblage
of people in a plain, homely apartment.
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