The women wore dresses of new calico--save Mrs.Dr.Allen, who wore a black silk dress which had come with her from her late home in Lexington.

Bim Kelso came in a dress of red muslin trimmed with white lace.

Ann Rutledge also wore a red dress and came with Abe.

The latter was rather grotesque in his new linsey trousers, of a better length than the former pair, but still too short.
"It isn't fair to blame the trousers or the tailor," he had said when he had tried them on.

"My legs are so long that the imagination of the tailor is sure to fall short if the cloth don't.