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OLD WEST SURREY 



or close to, the page at which the book was opened. The 

 modern way — comparing very badly with the old — seems 

 to be to give children names out of penny novelettes, or 

 in imitation of the prevalent silly fashion for frivolous fancy 

 names. 



The simple and charming dress of young cottage girls 

 of the older time, the cotton print frock, — the long pinafore 



The White Smock-Frock 



and the plain sun-bonnet — is delightfully shown in Mrs. 

 Allingham's ' Happy England.' 



The old carter's smock-frock or round frock, still linger- 

 ing, but on its way to becoming extinct, is centuries old. 

 No better thing has ever been devised for any kind of 

 outdoor wear that admits of the use of an outer varment. 

 It turns an astonishing amount of wet, especially when of 

 the ordinary local pattern, shown at p. 219, that has a 



