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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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