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The Hunting Min.-The hunting shirt, the
emblem Of the Revolution, is banshed from the
national military, but still fingers among the hun.
,ers and pioneers of tho far West. The national
costume, properly so called, was adopted in the
outset of the Revolution, and was recommended
by Washington to his army. in the most eventful
period of the war Of lndependcce. !, wes the fa-
yore garb with many Of the line, particularly
the raIIant Col. Josiah Parker.


When Morgan's Ritemen. made prisoners nt the
assault of Quebec in l775. wero returning to the
South to be exchanged, the British garrisons be-
held with wonder these sons Of the mountains and
the forest. Their hardy looks, their tall, athletic
forms, their marching always in Indian file, with
the light and noseless step peculiar to their Pur-
sui, OF woodland game; but above all, to Euro
,can owes. their singular picturesqe costume, the
hunting shirt, with its frlnges, the wampum bets,
Ieycius and mocasins, richly worked with Indian
nrnamep,s, and beads and porcupine quiIls OF
h,iant and varied dyes. the tomahawk and knife;
,bns, with the well known death-dealing Of these
n,a,chless. marksmen, created in the European


,;l,orv, a degree ofawe and respect for the hunt
.; : sb;r,. which lasted with the war Of the Rev.
! n,S,ion.--S Louis Ser.