The waistcoat was broadly bound with white binding, and, like the coat, evinced great strength and powers of resistance.

His breeches were of a still broader furrow than the waistcoat, looking as if the ploughman had laid two ridges into one.

They came low down the leg, and were met by a pair of well-made, well put on, very brown topped boots, a colour then unknown at Laverick Wells.

His spurs were bright and heavy, with formidable necks and rowels, whose slightest touch would make a horse wince, and put him on his good behaviour.
Nor did the great slapping brown horse, Hercules, turn out less imposingly than his master.

Leather, though not the man to work himself, had a very good idea of work, and right manfully he made the helpers at the Eclipse livery and bait stables strap and groom his horses.