A pair of gloves were three and ninepence; a pair of kid slippers, thirteen and sixpence; ribbons were one and sixpence.

[Footnote: _Do._, Account of Mrs.Marion Nicholas with Tillford, 1802.

On this bill appears also a charge for Hyson tea, for straw bonnets, at eighteen shillings; for black silk gloves, and for one "Aesop's Fables," at a cost of three shillings and ninepence.] The blacksmith charged six shillings and ninepence for a new pair of shoes, and a shilling and sixpence for taking off an old pair; and he did all the iron work for the farm and the house alike, from repairing bridle bits and sharpening coulters to mounting "wafil irons" [Footnote: _Do._, Account of Morrison and Hickey, 1798.]--for the housewives excelled in preparing delicious waffles and hot cakes.
Holidays of the Gentry.
The gentry were fond of taking holidays, going to some mountain resort, where they met friends from other parts of Kentucky and Tennessee, and from Virginia and elsewhere.

They carried their negro servants with them, and at a good tavern the board would be three shillings a day for the master and a little over a shilling for the man.

They lived in comfort and they enjoyed themselves; but they did not have much ready money.