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Now, if a lady sets up her carriage with the family crest and fine liveries, why, I should like to know, is the wig of the coachman omitted, and his cocked hat also? It is a kind of shabby, half-ashamed way of doing things a garbled glory. The cock-hatted, knee-breeched, paste-buckled, horse-hair-wigged coachman, one of the institutions of the aristocracy.
With rough pilot coat and sou'-wester, scarred and tarred hands, easy, rolling gait, and boots from heel to hip, with inch-thick soles, like those of a dramatic buccaneer, he bore as little resemblance to the popular idea of a lace-coated, brass-buttoned, cock-hatted admiral as a sea-urchin bears to a cockle-shell. Nevertheless Manx was a real admiral as real as Nelson, and much harder worked.
We approached. Gravely, silently, intensely interested, the cock-hatted, spikeshod, dangerous men were playing croquet! The sight was too much for our nerves. We went away. The permanent inhabitants of the place we discovered to be friendly to a degree. The Indian strain was evident in various dilution through all.
I see him as a person half asleep sees some large object across the room and against the window-light even if to the effect of my now asking myself why, so far from the scene of action, he was in panoply of war. I seem to see him cock-hatted and feathered too an odd vision of dancing superior plumes which doesn't fit if he was only a captain.
'My good children, if you're an infant Band of Hope, let me recommend you to play in some other backyard, said the Cock-Hatted Man. H. O. said, 'Band of Hope yourself' but no one noticed it. 'We're NOT a Band of Hope, said Noel. 'We're British, and the man over there told us you are.
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