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Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 128
i-cult for them towalk, and causethem to stay athome, just as theChinese of to-daykeep up the style ofcramping and de-forming their wom-ens feet to preventthem gadding about.These anti-gad-abouts of the six-teenth century areall too heavy andclumsy for Ameri-can boys, but amodification of theFrench… … Fig. 80.—Shepherds on Stilts. their long wooden sticks, look like ungainly storks, butthey can spy a sheep when a man on the ground would beunable to detect him, and they can wade a stream dry shod,or, rather, with dry feet, for I believe they wear no shoes. In fact, Dicks stilts, strapped on his…
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