human
And now we have come back to wide full skirts, said Miss Cynthia.
gpt
We're putting stiffening in to hold them out. And there's talk of hoops.
human
Frock had a sort of common country sound, because the farmers wore tow frocks at their work. The little girl had been laughed at for saying it, and she was trying very hard to always call the garment a
gpt
The Continental fashions were extremely picturesque, said Mrs. Jasper.
human
And the men were strong and earnest, and equal to the emergencies of the day, if they did indulge in adornments considered rather feminine now. But I like the variety. The newly-arrived emigrants in their native garb interest me.
gpt
There are some around in Houston Street, laughed Ben.
human
Dutch girls with flaxen hair and little caps, and those queer waists with shoulder straps, and thick woollen stockings. Some of them wear wooden shoes. And Irish women with great plaid cloaks and little shawls tied over their heads, short skirts and nailed shoes that clatter on the sidewalk.
gpt
I should like to see them,
human
Joe ought to take you out on St. Patrick's day, returned Ben.
gpt
But they soon reach the dead level of uniformity.
human
Fancy an Indian in coat and trousers instead of blanket, war-paint, and feathers,
gpt
I think we shall hardly be able to reduce him to modern costumes. He does not take kindly to civilisation.
human
He's shamefully treated anyway.
gpt
Oh, Jim, it won't do to take your noble red men from romance. The heroes of King Philip's time have vanished.
human
If we absorb all these people, we shall be a curiously conglomerate nation by and by,
gpt
As we were in the beginning, returned Father Underhill.
human
We started from most of the nations of Europe. We have had a French state, Dutch and German, English and Scotch, but the one language seems a great leveler.