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by age and rough usage to quite a next word underlined: summery texture, the bottom of the skirt was fringed by the blue blanket edging which was also left on the shoulders.

The frock was confined at the waist by a leathern belt, into which was stuck a hunting or scalp knife with a buck's horn handle, leggings of blue cloth with a profuse fringe down the outside of the leg, moccasins of deerskin, and a word cap of muskrat fur ornamented with a buck's tail, completed his costume.

His face though evidently belonging to one of pure white blood, was tanned by exposure to heat and cold, to the complexion of an Indian, and his hair or what little was left, for his head was cropped close, was of an iron grey. His small but bright grey eye twinkled beneath an eyebrow