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garden posies to the passer-by, while near them 
the herb-woman held enormous bouquets of 
gray-looking herbs that exhaled a savour of 
coming turkey-dressing and seed-cakes. Not 
far from the flower-women were gathered to- 
gether some " Preston Negroes " with their 
contributions of eggs and onions. They were 
the basket-makers for this whole camp, for 
everything was displayed in baskets, most of 
them after one pattern, and all made by the 
negroes of Preston. They were pretty baskets, 
strong and of unique design. 
Of course there were Indians. What would 
an open-air market in the north amount to 
without them ? They were across the street 
and by themselves, and truth compels one to 
confess they were not interesting. They had, 
as it were, fallen between the races, and pos- 
sessed neither the charm of the savage nor the 
advantages of the civilised state. Most of 
them were half-breeds, and all of them were 
dressed in the cast-off clothing of the white 
people. They had toy bows and arrows for 
sale and tawdry ornaments such as can be 
bought by the quantity in any city of the 
United States. But they added some pictur- 
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