Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 211
ons, white waistcoats and trousers, the date of the year, and a Latin motto referringto Montem day. Everybody went to Montem. King Georgealways used to go, and Queen Victoria went.There was always a Montem poet, who dressedin patchwork, and wore a crown ; and he droveabout the crowd in a… … THE JUNE PROCESSION OF BOATS AT ETON. silk stockings and pumps, and carried slender whitepoles. But before this, long before sunrise, thesalt-bearers and their twelve assistants had gone,some on foot and some in gigs, to their places onall the great roads leading to Eton, to beg saltfrom everybody…
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