# Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2)

Author: Sargent, Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius), 1786-1867

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39675

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Dealings+with+the+Dead%2C+Volume+2+%28of+2%29+Sargent&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

My earliest recollections of some, among the dead and buried aristocracy of Boston, find a ready embodiment, in cocked hats of enormous proportions, queues reaching to their middles, cloaks of scarlet broadcloth, lined with silk, and faced with velvet, and just so short, as to exhibit the swell of the leg, silk stockings, and breeches, highly polished shoes, and large, square, silver buckles, embroidered vests, with deep lappet pockets, similar to those, which were worn, in the age of _Louis Quatorze_, shirts ruffled, at the bosoms and sleeves, doeskin or beaver gloves, and glossy, black, Surinam walking canes, six feet in length, and commonly carried by the middle.

## Chapters

- [VOLUME II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dealings-with-the-dead-volume-2-of-2-39675/chapters/1/index.md)
- [part ii., puts these words into the mouth of Cleomenes, when speaking to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dealings-with-the-dead-volume-2-of-2-39675/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Book I., Chap. X. of his Pseudodoxia, he speaks, with deep contempt, of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dealings-with-the-dead-volume-2-of-2-39675/chapters/3/index.md)