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Excerpt from The Monastery, Vol. 2 of 2: A Romance
H albert' s dress was certainly not of that description which sets off to the best advantage a presence of itself prepossessing. His jerkin and hose were of coarse rustic cloth, and his cap of the same. A' belt round his waist served at once to sustain the broad sword which we have already mentioned, and to hold five or six arrows and bird-bolts, which were stuck into it on the right. Side, along with a large knife, hilt cd with a buck-h'orn, or, as it was then called, a' dud geon dagger. To complete his dress, we must notice his loose buskins of deer's-hide, formed so as to draw up on the leg as high as the knee, or at pleasure to be thrust down lower than the calves. These were generally used at the period by such as either had their principal occupation, or their chief pleasure, in sylvan sports. As they served to protect the legs against the rough and tangled thickets into which the pursuit of game fregiently led them. And these trifling particulars complete his external appearance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
