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Hungarian Shepherd - from a photograph by Richebourg, 1856. 'One shepherd was a very handsome young fellow, with a mild, oval, deep bronze countenance, almost oriental in expression, with black, piercing, roving eyes, and long, straight, black hair. He wore a black loose handkerchief round his throat, a close-fitting blue cloth hussar jacket without sleeves, with red glass buttons, and hanging over his left shoulder a blue pelisse of the same material; his sleeves were loose, and of white linen, and so were his trousers, which were so full and so short that they might be taken for a white kilt; on his legs were long, stout boots. He leaned on a wooden crook carved and coloured. The parti-coloured strings of his embroidered tobacco-pouch hung from his jacket pocket. He was of middle stature, muscular, slight, and active, and walked with a proud, lounging gait'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.