Travelled all over the country in bonnets." "Travelled in bonnets ?" cried Austin.

"What _do_ you mean, Lubin?
How can a man go travelling about the country in a bonnet?
Had he a bonnet on when you saw him drinking in the bar ?" "Lor', Master Austin, wherever was you brought up ?" exclaimed Lubin, in grave amazement at the youth's ignorance.

"When a gentleman 'travels' in anything, it means he goes about getting orders for it.
Now this here gentleman was agent, I take it, for some big millinery shop in London, and come down here wi' boxes an' boxes o' bonnets, an' tokes, and all sorts o' female headgear as women goes about in----" "In short, he was a commercial traveller," said Austin, very mildly.
"You see, my dear Lubin, we have been talking of different things.

I wasn't thinking of a gentleman who hawks haberdashery.

When I said traveller, I meant a man who goes tramping across Africa, and shoots elephants, and gets snowed up at the North Pole, and has all sorts of uncomfortable and quite incredible adventures.