At the roots there was a quarter of an inch of white, giving the whiskers the appearance of having been stuck on.
5.

A pair of spectacles "with tortoise-shell rim." Wont to slip off.
6.

A glass eye, purchased of a peddler, and differing in color from its natural mate, perpetually getting out of focus by turning in or out.
7.

A set of false teeth, badly fitted, and given to bobbing up and down.
8.

The Squire proper, to whom these patches were loosely attached.
It is an old story that a boy wrote home to his father begging him to come West, because "mighty mean men get into office out here." But Ralph concluded that some Yankees had taught school in Hoopole County who would not have held a high place in the educational institutions of Massachusetts.