Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 440
as enormous. Not one of themweighed less than 250 pounds. They woreshort skirts and hoops, and notwithstandingtheir size they were padded out at the hips.Their arms were bare, and so were their necks,and they were sunburned to the color of aboiled lobster. From their shoulders they worewings of the… … ENTRANCE GATE TO OLD ANTWERP. long flaps, and from under the caps, hanging of brass or gold, I dont know which. On thedown to their eyes, were little curls or spirals stout arm of each woman hung a basket. How
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