itarian side. Deer and bear were plentiful and provided meat for the table and hides for many uses. The venison and bear.meat supplemented the supply of pork in the smoke house. Beef was seldom eaten. Fishing also provided both sport and food. Small game was plentiful and for such the hunters resorted to traps to save ammunition. For pure sport, the Houstons enjoyed wrestling, foot-racing, broad-jumping and target shooting. Marbles and mumblepeg could be played by children and men alike.

Food was plentiful and it can be assumed that Houston women were good cooks. As described by Dunaway:

"The customary fare of the Scotch-Irish pioneers included fried mush with wild honey, roasting ears and succotash, pone bread, johnny-cake, hominy, potatoes, turnips, wild fruits, game and fish. Perhaps the most typical dish was pioneer porridge, consisting of mush and milk, although mush was frequently eaten with molasses, bear’s oil and the gravy of fried meat. A popular dish was hog and hominy and another was buckwheat souens."3

Doughnuts, cakes and pies, especially apple pies from dried fruit, were popular sweets. Garden vegetables were plentiful in season. There was little need for purchases of food. Even for coffee or tea, sugar or spice, substitutes could usually be found. Dress of the Houstons in Colonial times naturally varied according to where they lived—whether mountain foothills or seaboard, north, south, or middle area. One attire for men is described by Samuel Rutherford Houston, writing of his father, the Rev. Samuel Houston, mentioned elsewhere as a Revolutionary soldier:

"For many years his dress was that of the English gentry of former times—short breeches, buttoned and buckled at the knees, long stockings, shoes rather large with heavy silver buckles; boots when riding out, reaching nearly to the knees, with white leather tops to them; a dress coat rounded in front, with many buttons on one side only, and a standing collar."4

These, of course, were dress, or "Sunday clothes," typical of pre-Revolutionary colonials, and continued out of time by the Rev. Mr. Houston. Such was not the everyday wear of the

3 Dunaway, p. 189.
4 Samuel Rutherford Houston, D.D., Brief Biographical Accounts of Many Members of the Houston Family (Elm Street Printing Co., Cincinnati, 1882), p. 134.