294 AX AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



and women, too, with clogs and pattens and old green and blue 

 umbrellas, and bundles and bags and baskets and hampers and 

 cages and parcels in handkerchiefs ; old and young, lasses and 

 lads, generally three or four couples together, coming to town for 

 a holiday, loudly laughing and coarsely joking ; bound to enjoy 

 themselves spite of the shameful indelicacy of the wind, and the 

 chill drenching of the rain, and the misplaced attachment to their 

 finery of the spattering mud. 



