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Updated: May 2, 2025
"At last," said the widow, "I got sick on't, and one day after he'd sat more'n two hours, says I, 'Ebenezer, if you want that red heifer, say so, and that'll end it. Up he jumps, and says he, 'I'll let you know in a few days; then pullin' from his trowsers pocket two little nurly apples, he laid 'em on the table as a present for Sally Ann!
His coat, calculating from its length of waist, and ample skirt, would fit Bumbo Green, while his trowsers, being made of some cheap and shrinking material, have gradually contracted their limits, and look now exactly like knee-breeches, without the usual buttons at the bottom.
Tailtackle, in his shirt and trowsers, and felt shoes, now stuck his head up the main hatchway. "I would recommend your getting the hatches on, sir that fellow is not honest, sir, take my word for it." "Never mind, Mr Tailtackle, never mind. Forward, there; Mr Jigmaree, slap a round shot into him, since he won't speak, or heave to right between his masts, do you hear are you ready?"
He had nothing to do but listen, and watch the man on the bank who led the horse that was towing the barge; or address a rare remark to his solitary companion an old sailor, dressed in a sou'-wester, blue jersey, and the invariable drab trowsers, tar-besprent, and long boots, of his calling, who steered automatically, facing the meadows in beautiful abstraction.
His appearance was redolently marine; his pilot coat, flying necktie and wideish trowsers, a general airiness of style on a solid frame, spoke of the element his blue eyes had dipped their fancy in, from hereditary inclination. The colour of a sandpit was given him by hair and whiskers of yellow-red on a ruddy face.
They were all, without exception, clean, well shaven, and decently rigged in white trowsers, linen or check shirts, and held their broad Panama sombreros in their hands. Most of them wore the red silk sash round the waist. A Spaniard can't murder a man comfortably, if he has not his crucifix about him. They were, collectively, the most daring, intrepid, Salvator Rosa looking men I had ever seen.
I tell you: he will shave, and he will choose the time for shaving early after he has braced these immensely high trowsers that make such a placard of him. Oh, my goodness! My dear Romer, I have said to him fifty times if I have said it once, my goodness me! why can you not get decent trowsers such as other men wear?
Now, take Lord First Chop, who is the most fashionable man in London, dress him in the last cut coat, best trowsers, French boots, Paris gloves, and grape-vine-root cane, don't forget his whiskers, or mous-stache, or breast-pins, or gold chains, or any thing; and what have you got? a tailor's print-card, and nothin' else.
Parker, whose gloves were much too large, and whose white trowsers were much too long. "I kept the flowers you gave me," he said in a breathless way. "Oh yes, I remember; mustn't we forward now?" "Mr. Morgeson's very fond of flowers." "So he is. How de do, Miss Ryder."
"Let me see, let me see," he continued in a ruminating tone, "what's to be done?" He ran his hands through his pockets and produced a handful of change. Inspired by this success he rose and went to the closet and continued his search through a choice collection of coats, waistcoats, and trowsers that hung upon its hooks.
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