He wore his reddish hair long and also sported a thick beard.

He had a squint in one eye which, as Sam said, "gave him the appearance of looking continually over his shoulder.

When he talked his voice was an alternate squeak and rumble.
"Well, of all the odd fellows I ever met he is the limit," was Tom's comment.

"Why, he'd do for a comic valentine!" "I almost had to laugh in his face," said Sam.

"Even now I can't look at him without grinning." "He's a character," was Dick's opinion.