Dealings with the dead. By a sexton of the old school.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781425536947
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; History / United States / General; United States - General
First sentence: MY earliest recollections of some, among the dead and buried aristocracy of Boston, find a ready embodiment, in cocked hats of enormous proportions, queues reaching to their middles, cloaks of scarlet broadcloth, lined with silk, and faced with velvet, and just so short, as to exhibit the swell of the leg, silk stockings, and breeches, highly polished shoes, and large, square, silver buckles, embroidered vests, with deep lappet pockets, similar to those, which were worn, in the age of Louis Quatorze, shirts ruffled, at the bosoms and sleeves, doeskin or beaver gloves, and glossy, black, Surinam walking canes, six feet in length, and commonly carried by the middle.