SOWING THE DRAGON'S TEETH Solomon Binkus in his talk with Colonel Hare had signalized the arrival of a new type of man born of new conditions.

When Lord Howe and General Abercrombie got to Albany with regiments of fine, high-bred, young fellows from London, Manchester and Liverpool, out for a holiday and magnificent in their uniforms of scarlet and gold, each with his beautiful and abundant hair done up in a queue, Mr.Binkus laughed and said they looked "terrible pert." He told the virile and profane Captain Lee of Howe's staff, that the first thing to do was to "make a haystack o' their hair an' give 'em men's clothes." "A cart-load o' hair was mowed off," to quote again from Solomon, and all their splendor shorn away for a reason apparent to them before they had gone far on their ill-fated expedition.

Hair-dressing and fine millinery and drawing-room clothes were not for the bush.
An inherited sense of old wrongs was the mental background of this new type of man.

Life in the bush had strengthened his arm, his will and his courage.

His words fell as forcefully as his ax under provocation.
He was deliberate as became one whose scalp was often in danger; trained to think of the common welfare of his neighborhood and rather careless about the look of his coat and trousers.
John Irons and Solomon Binkus were differing examples of the new man.
Of large stature, Irons had a reputation of being the strongest man in the New Hampshire grants.