His face was the color of a mulatto.

He wore no scout hat, he wore no hat at all.

It would have been quite superfluous for him to have worn any of his thirty or forty merit badges of fond memory on his sleeves, for his sleeves were rolled up to his shoulders.

He wore a pongee shirt, this being a sort of compromise between a shirt and nothing at all.

He wore moccasins, but not Indian moccasins.