comforter-fashion

Updated: May 27, 2025

Underneath that there were rude swathings of flannel; five or six yards of flannel are tied comforter-fashion about his neck. The thing on his head is probably another sack. He stares, sometimes smiling, sometimes a little ruefully, at the camera. Even when he was only five years old, one sees that half whimsical wrinkling over his soft brown eyes that characterised his face.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth