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Gentleman's Magazine 1890 part 1 p.536
commonly used in this country by the lower class of people, dressed in a coarse blue frock trimmed with black horn buttons, a checked shirt, a leathern strap about his neck for a stock, a coarse apron, and a pair of great wooden-soled shoes, plated with iron to preserve them - what we call clogs in these parts - with a child upon his knee, eating his breakfast," &c. Spinning and weaving the wool of the Herdwicks was at this time performed in almost every house in the dales, and this process provided clothes both for the male and female portion of the household.
A HILL SHEPHERD.

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