Raiment

May 8

            [HDT describes a pair pants he has just acquired (cost $1.60 – about a fifth of what other pants cost) made out of a durable clay-colored material.]  Most of my friends are disturbed by my wearing them. . .  Others would not wear it, durable and cheap as it is, because it is worn by the Irish.  Moreover, I like the color on other accounts.  Anything but black clothes.  The birds and beast are not afraid of me now.