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Excerpt from Sixty Jane
All this was supported by a hoop-skirt which gave the boys more pleasure than any other article of her attire. For they would run back and forth to tilt this, with elaborate evidence of accident. Then would be disclosed to the inactive participants a pair of Con gress gaiters, out of the relaxed, calyx-like tops of which started a pair of ghostly ankles.
So it was that on these holiday occasions the boys would pelt her bandbox, tilt her hoopskirt, make humorous remarks about her turban, and worry her in the way boys know so well, until she turned and - smiled!
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