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Excerpt from Life and Letters He wore a pair of gigantic Shoes, about a foot broad at the toes, made out of thick cowhide, with the hair on; and on his head was a tall rim less cowhide hat shaped like an inverted flower pot. His bodily covering was, however, the most extraordinary: the outer garment, if garment it can be called, resembled a very large mattress in size and shape, with the ticking of innumerable pieces of raw hide sewn together. It was about a foot in thickness and stuffed with sticks, stones, hard lumps Of clay, rams' horns, bleached bones, and other hard, heavy Objects; it was fastened round him With straps of hide, and reached nearly to the ground. This freak does not seem so singular in his sur roundings as out of them. And there are many others, including a lady who, when St. Antony did not send her fine weather, let his image down a well to discover how he liked the wet. They pass over the pages in sequence, come and go; none stay but the family, Who linger in the back ground, a dim but friendly group. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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