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[12] "Niles's Register," 1823. [13] Spanish proverb: "Little beard, little shame." [14] This case is related in the "Life of Benjamin Lundy." [15] A case actually like this, happening twenty-five years later, was
related to me by Judge George P. Fisher, of Dover. [16] See the case of Whitecar in the Delaware reports. [17] I take the following note from the New York Tribune of December,
1882: "The town of Richmond, Ind., is said to be the centre of Quakerdom
in this country, and has five meetings in the two creeds of Fox and
Hicks, and the Earlham Quaker College. There I saw the large,
fur-covered white hats, a few of which are still left, which were
imported into Indiana by the North Carolina Quakers from 'Beard's Hatter
Shop,' an extinct locality in the North State, where the Quakers were
prolific, and they all ordered these marvellous hats, which are said to
be literally entailed, being incapable of wearing out, and as good for
the grandson as for the pioneer. They are made of beaver-skin or its
imitation in some other fur."
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