It ain't so bad as it would be if ye couldn't strip it off when ye git tired on't, an' it's a good thing to know." "Do clothes make Belcher a gentleman ?" inquired Mr.Benedict.
"Well, it's what makes him a Mister, any way.

When ye git his clo'es off thar ain't nothin' left of 'im.

Dress 'im up in my old clo'es, as has got tar enough on 'em to paint a boat, an' there wouldn't be enough man in 'im to speak to." How long Jim would have indulged in his philosophy of the power of dress had he not been disturbed will never be known, for at this moment Mr.
Balfour knocked at his door, and was admitted.

Sam Yates followed, and both looked Jim over and pronounced him perfect.

Even these familiar friends felt the power of dress, and treated Jim in a way to which he had been unaccustomed.