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shillings a yard ; flannel, four to six shillings ; calico 

 and chintz about the same ; baize, three shillings and 

 ninepence. A dozen knives and forks were eighteen 

 shillings, and ten pocket handkerchiefs two pounds. 

 Worsted shoes were eight shillings a pair, and but- 

 tons were a shilling a dozen. A pair of gloves 

 was three and ninepence; a pair of kid slippers, 

 thirteen and sixpence; ribbons were one and six- 

 pence. 33 The blacksmith charged six shillings and 

 ninepence for a pair of shoes, and a shilling and six- 

 pence for taking off an old pair; and he did all the 

 iron work for the farm and the house alike, from 

 repairing bridle bits and sharpening coulters to 

 mounting "wafil irons" 34 for the housewives ex- 

 celled in preparing delicious waffles and hot cakes. 

 The gentry were fond of taking holidays, going 

 to some mountain resort, where they met friends 

 from other parts of Kentucky and Tennessee, and 

 from Virginia and elsewhere. They carried their 

 negro servants with them, and at a good tavern 

 the board would be three shillings a day for the 

 master and a little over a shilling for the man. 

 They lived in comfort and they enjoyed themselves; 

 but they did not have much ready money. From 

 the sales of their crops and stock and from their 

 mercantile ventures they got enough to pay the 



88 Do., Account of Mrs. Marion Nicholas with Tilford, 1802. 

 On this bill appears also a charge for Hyson tea, for straw 

 bonnets, at eighteen shillings ; for black silk gloves, and for 

 one "^sop's Fables," at a cost of three shillings and nine- 

 pence. 



84 Do., Account of Morrison and Hickey, 1798. 



