On these coasts the killing of pigs and the manufacture of sausages would appear to employ the leisure of the few, who for one reason or another have been deemed unfit for the sea.

It is not our business to inquire why River Andrew had never used the fickle element.

All that lay in the past.

And in a degree he was saved from the disgrace of being a landsman by the smell of tar and bloaters that heralded his coming, by the blue jersey and the brown homespun trousers which he wore all the week, and by the saving word which distinguished him from the poor inland lubbers who had no dealings with water at all.
He had this evening laid aside his old sou'wester--worn in fair and foul weather alike--for his Sunday hat.

His head-part was therefore official and lent additional value to the words recorded.