It was a cruel mortification to Kentuck--who, in the carelessness of a large nature and the habits of frontier life, had begun to regard all garments as a second cuticle, which, like a snake's, only sloughed off through decay--to be debarred this privilege from certain prudential reasons.

Yet such was the subtle influence of innovation that he thereafter appeared regularly every afternoon in a clean shirt and face still shining from his ablutions.

Nor were moral and social sanitary laws neglected.

"Tommy," who was supposed to spend his whole existence in a persistent attempt to repose, must not be disturbed by noise.

The shouting and yelling, which had gained the camp its infelicitous title, were not permitted within hearing distance of Stumpy's.