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 * The Franklin** is a farmer. He is a very sociable and kind gentleman, he works very hard. Farming would correspond to the franklin because he is a farmer back in the old days. He lived for pleasure. Chaucer thinks hes a respectable and polite person but he provoked a lot of dissagreements.

**The skipper** is a shipman who is on a pilgrimage. He owns a ship and he knows the sea very well he is also a tradesman his ship is used to transport goods but he steals so he could also be a pirate.

The skipper is a brownskin shipman/sailor with a beard. He can't ride a horse for the life of him, as he looked awkward on it. He is from far west. He owns a ship and has seen every river and bay in England. He is a bit of a rascal, he is known for stealing wine while the captain sleeps. He was in a gown Of thick rough cloth falling to the knee. He had A dagger hanging on a cord around his neck.


 * Habadasher** is a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons ribbons zips, and other nations In american english, haberdasher is another term for a men's outfitter. A haberdasher's shop or the items sold therein are called **haberdashery**.

The word appears in Chaucers Canterbury Tales Haberdashers were initially [|__peddlers__], sellers of small wares such as needles, buttons, etc. The word could derive from the an [|__Old Norse__] word akin to the [|__Icelandic__] //haprtask//, which means "peddlers' wares" or the sack in which the peddler carried them. If this is the case, a //haberdasher// (in its Scandinavian meaning) would be very close to a [|__//mercer//__] (French). Perhaps more likely, since the word has no recorded use in Scandinavia, it is from [|__Anglo-Norman__] //hapertas//, meaning 'small ware'. A haberdasher would retail small wares, the goods of the peddler, while a mercer would specialize in "linens, silks, [|__fustian__], [|__worsted__] piece-goods and bedding".

__[|Saint Louis IX]__, the King of France 1226–70, is the [|__patron saint__] of haberdashers in France.. In Belgium and other places in Continental Europe, it is [|__Saint Nicholas__], while in the [|__City of London__] the [|__Worshipful Company of Haberdashers__] adopted [|__Saint Catherine__] as the [|__patron saint__] of the guild.