Its style of face and curious outfit were utterly foreign to the miner, for he had been bearded with the robust, unkempt growth of many years, tanned to a leathery hue, and garbed perennially in the habit of a scarecrow, while this creature was shaved and clipped and curried, and the clothes it stood up in were of many startling hues.
Its face was scraped so clean of whiskers as to be a pallid white, but lack of adornment ended at this point and the rest was overladen wondrously, while from the centre of the half-brown, half-white face the long, red nose of Lee ran out.

Beside it rolled his lonesome eye, alive with excitement.
He came up with a strut, illumining the landscape, and inquired: "Well, how do I look ?" "I'm darned if I know," said Gale.

"But it's plumb unusual." "These here shoes leak," said the spectacle, pulling up his baggy trousers to display his tan footgear, "because they was made for dry goin'-- that's why they left the tops off; but they've got a nice, healthy color, ain't they?
As a whole, it seems to me I'm sort of nifty." He revolved slowly before their admiring gaze, and while to one versed in the manners of the Far East it would have been evident that the original owner of these clothes had come from somewhere beyond the Susquehanna, and had either been a football player or had travelled with a glee club, to these three Northmen it seemed merely that here was the modish echo of a distant civilization.
"Wat's de matter on your face ?" said Poleon.

"You been fightin' ?" "I ain't shaved in a long time, and this here excitement has kind of shattered my nerves.

I didn't have no lookin'-glass, neither, in my shack, so I had to use a lard-can cover.