. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. BY MARY DAWSON. OWADAYS we usegloves only to com-plete our formaldress, or to protectour hands from cold,and, possibly, fromthe cuts, bruises, orscratches of certainkinds of rough labor. But in the olden daysthe glove, although it served these purposes too,played a very superior part. It might almosthave been called an important personage inthose times, for on many occasions it acted in-stead of a person. Sometimes it played the partof a king or earl; sometimes it did the work of apoliceman; now and then it gave away la
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. BY MARY DAWSON. OWADAYS we usegloves only to com-plete our formaldress, or to protectour hands from cold,and, possibly, fromthe cuts, bruises, orscratches of certainkinds of rough labor. But in the olden daysthe glove, although it served these purposes too,played a very superior part. It might almosthave been called an important personage inthose times, for on many occasions it acted in-stead of a person. Sometimes it played the partof a king or earl; sometimes it did the work of apoliceman; now and then it gave away largeproperties, even whole towns and rich tracts ofland. It sounds like a fairy-tale, does it not?But it is every word is the way it came gloves were first invented, they wereused exactly as we use them now—to keep thehands warm, and to keep them from all sorts ofdisagreeable blisters, burns, and chapping. Theancient Persians wore them at a very earlyperiod, and boys and girls who have read Vergils ^neid will remember that the Roman pugilistswore them in their pom
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