Prentice Reid

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But in the morning, the boys who had taken off their pants had a most terrible time. They did not know whether they were to button up in front or behind. Some of the boys said the open part went in front; others said, ‘No, it goes at the back.’ There is where the boys who had kept all their clothes on came in handy to look at. They showed the others that the pants buttoned up in front and not at the back.
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928
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