Modern Chivalry Containing the Adventures of a Captain And Teague Oregan Hi
Modern Chivalry Containing the Adventures of a Captain And Teague Oregan Hi
H H Hugh Henry Brackenridge
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PUBLISHED BY JACOB JOHNSON, AND FOR SALE AT HIS BOOKSTORES IN PHILADELPHIA AND IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. AIEXJXDEX t? PHILLIPS, PRlXfERS, CARLISLE, 1807. COPY RIGHT SECURED. MODERN CHIVALRY. CHAPTER I. AS the Captain was lounging through the fair, he saw a tall thin man, of a lean visage, and sal low complexion, talking at a stall with a chapman. He had under his arm a piece of new, or, as it is cal led, green linen. In fact he was a weaver, and had linen claith, as he called it, to sell. For he w...as what we call a Scotch-Irishman, and of the name of Ocona- ma, which is not a Scotch-Irish nume ; but an abori ginal Patronymic ; nevertheless it came to be hi$ name ; perhaps, by the mother s side. He had on him what we call a sjiencer ; that is a coat with the tail docked ; though some have this kind of garb made so in the first instance ; that is, a juste au corps, or jacket to go over the coat, instead of being under it ; so that it seems to be but a half- coat. Now Oconama is pronounced with the final vowel soft ; and hearing it so pronounced, the Captain took it to be occonomy : especially as he saw that his dress corresponded with the designation ; and the sm^ll scratch wig on his head, but half covered his brown A 2 6 MODERN CHIVALRY.
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