One of these was the entire elimination of stockings and garters.

This was accomplished by the use of a pair of trousers with legs of such ample diameter and of such length as to render stockings altogether superfluous.

This released both garters for more important duties, they being tied end to end, thus constituting a sort of single strand suspender which at its junction with his trousers in front was securely held by a large nail.

His hair presented an appearance not unlike the negligent architecture of an eagle's nest, which is of the bungalow type in its loose irregularity.

He had not the slightest reason for supposing that Pee-wee was equipped with commissary stores, but on general principles he said, "Give us a hunk of candy, will yer ?" As luck would have it, this random shot, fired at every strange boy from the upper world, hit the mark, to his unspeakable astonishment.
Pulling out of his pocket a licorice jaw-breaker of vast dimensions, Pee-wee sent it shooting in a bee-line at the face of the stranger.
Never before in all his checkered history had Keekie Joe ever received any edible of any character whatever in response to his menacing demands.