Trunck Breeches

more commonly called "trunk-hose," were short wide breeches reaching a little above, or sometimes below the knees, stuffed with hair, and striped. (See *The Oxford Manual for Brasses*, p. cvi.; and Planche's *British Costume*, pp. 334-339. new ed.) Two years ago, I saw in the Strand an old man with a *queue*; a sight which I made a note of as soon as I got home, influenced by the same motive that, no doubt, led Smith in 1640 to append to the death of "old Mr. Grice" the remark, "who wore truncke breeches," namely, the antique singularity of the habiliment.