Identifier: howourgrandfathe00hart (find matches)
Title: How our grandfathers lived
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Chapman, Annie Bliss
Subjects: American literature United States -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f his neighbors had business on the Ohio:they therefore agreed to go together; and, as thesaying is, to kill two birds with one stone, for theyconcluded to make a hunting expedition of it. Theyset out by a new route, traveled slowly and killedwhat game they could, leaving the skins to takehome with them on their return. On the second orthird evening of the trip, they made their camp intime to prepare and eat their supper before nightfall. Here is a good place to describe the dress andhabits of such bold foresters. They always chose acamping-place as near water as convenient, and kin-dled their fire by the side of the largest suitable logthat could be found. Ground was chosen somewhatinclined, so that they might lie with the feet to thefire and the head uphill. The common mode of pre-paring food, was to sharpen a stick at both ends andstick one end into the ground in front of the fire,with their meat on the other end. The stick and itsburden could be turned round, as occasion required,
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•^•EfcaSssSS I.KAVIS IN INDIAN DRESS. NO. 49) The Pioneer 151 so as to roast through. Bread, when there was Hourto make it of, was either baked under the ashes,or the dough was rolled in long rolls and woundround a stick like that prepared for roasting meat,and managed in the same way. The pioneers dress consisted principally of a towlinen shirt and pantaloons, manufactured by wivesand daughters. The rest of their dress was nearlyall of buckskin, killed with their guns and dressedby their own hands. Their moccasins fitted the footneatly, and dry oak leaves usually supplied the placeof socks or stockings. Above these they wore a pairof buckskin leggins, or gaiters, made to fit the legand tie in with the moccasins at the ankle ; thenceextending some distance above the knees, and heldby a strap from the hip of the pantaloons. Theseleggins were a defence against rattlesnakes, briars,ancf nettles. In cutting the leggins, the surplus lefton the outer seam was hung out from one to twoinc

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