He wore a long blue overcoat over his uniform, and high boots.
But the dominant note was given to his appearance by the thick white beard which seemed to be touched with a light silver frost.

Under the great thatch of eyebrow the keen little eyes twinkled.

He made John think of a huge, white and inoffensive bear.
The general's roving eye caught sight of Scott and he exclaimed: "Come here, you young Yankee! I hear that you distinguished yourself last night by saving the life of one of our enemies, thus enabling him perhaps to fight against us once more." "I beg your pardon, General," said John, "but I'm no Yankee." "What, denying your birthright! I never heard an American do that before! Everybody knows you're a Yankee." "Pardon me.

General, you and all other Europeans make a mistake about the Yankees.

At home the people of the Southern States generally apply it to those living in the Northern states, but in the North it is carried still further and is properly applied to the residents of the six New England states.