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long tight -white cord breeches, and pale top-hoots 

 thrust low down the leg, the tops being supposed to 

 be cleaned with champagne. Leather breeches, caps, 

 and brown top-boots were voted slow in those days. 

 But the men went well as they do in every dress. 



" Old wiseheads, complacently smoothing the brim, 

 May jeer at my velvet, and call it a whim ; 

 They may think in a cap little wisdom there dwells ; 

 They may say he who wears it should wear it with bells ; 

 But when Broadbrim lies flat, 

 I will answer him pat, 

 Oh ! who but a crackskull would ride in a hat ?" 



Squire Warbtjeton. 



