. St. Nicholas [serial]. d for you andshared by no one else. Naturally, the gloves of thekings were very fine and costlycovering, with embroidery ofgold and silver and circletsof precious stones. Bishopsand the clergy wore whitelinen gloves, symbolic of in-nocence, or red silk hand-gearwith symbols worked in goldthread. The popes sometimeswore them of white silk deco-rated with pearls. Grave peo-ple wore dignified patternswithout any gorgeousness, andthose who liked to make abrave show chose very elabo-rate or gaudy affairs. In the early days everythingwas not regulated for the peo-ple, as it
. St. Nicholas [serial]. d for you andshared by no one else. Naturally, the gloves of thekings were very fine and costlycovering, with embroidery ofgold and silver and circletsof precious stones. Bishopsand the clergy wore whitelinen gloves, symbolic of in-nocence, or red silk hand-gearwith symbols worked in goldthread. The popes sometimeswore them of white silk deco-rated with pearls. Grave peo-ple wore dignified patternswithout any gorgeousness, andthose who liked to make abrave show chose very elabo-rate or gaudy affairs. In the early days everythingwas not regulated for the peo-ple, as it is now, by the gov-ernment and the was still young then,and people had rough-and-ready means of dealing withone another, of buying andselling or giving goods andproperty, and settling dis-putes. A glove, as it was veryclose indeed to a mans hand,came in course of time to belooked upon as taking theplace of the hand itself, and,as I have said, it sometimestook the mans place and wasmade to represent AN EARL S GLOVE OPENING A COUNTY FAIR. 3H THE STORY OF THE GLOVE. [Feb. For example : To open a fair it was necessarythen to have the consent and protection of thegreat lord in whose country it was going to beheld. Those who wished to open the fair wouldcome to the nobleman and petition him to bepresent. He might be very busy, or bored atthe idea of having to go,-yet he would knowthat it must be opened or his people would bediscontented. So he would say to the leadersof the people : No, my trusty fellows; I cantopen the fair in person, but I will send my gloveto do it. You all know my glove. Nobodyhas one like it in the country. It is the onemy lady mother embroidered for me in coloredsilks and silver wire, and it has a deep violetfringe. You can hang it above the entrance ofyour fair grounds as a sign that you are actingwith my permission. If any one disputes yourright or touches his masters glove, I will attendto him, that s all. So the glove would travelin
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