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Carnaby The First.
his taxes ; his mother was a Scotchwoman , educated in Denmark ; and his grandfather a Pole , AVIIO early emigrated to Kamskatka , and married a Japanese princess of the fifteenth loAver empire . Perkin has a large face and small features , his eyes being round and grey , his nose a corkscreAV sort of nose , of a somewhat diligently persuasive twistand his mouth small ordinarilybut
, , capable of indefinite expansion . Master Perkin Peterkin ' s body is long , and his legs short , Avhich naturally interferes Avith the symmetry of his lower man . He wears a sUgarloaf hat , Avith an ornament of brass beads tAvining spirally up it , and Avith a single red , soldier ' s feather ; a bright green coat , vrith large horn buttons and yelloAv linings ; and ample Turkish trousers ,
slit doAA'n the sides for the adequate stowage of two large pipes , one of Avhich he highly values as having been smoked by the Emperor Napoleon during the btn'ning of MOSCOAV . Perkin ' s voice is a shrill Avhistling sort of voice , something like the wind through the keyhole of a street-door .
2 . Giles Scroggins .- who , as our readers will perhaps remember , courted Molly or Margaret BroAvn , an old lady living in Cheshire during the latter half of the past or the beginning of the present century . Mr . Giles is just as long as his friend and chieftain Perkin Peterkin is broad . Called Longitude at college from the many high degrees he had taken in his
growth , Giles Scroggins had early seen the necessity of stirring himself in the Avorld ; and at the earnest advice of the then Lord Mayor , Longitude , who felt sensibly the arguments of his lordship as to his distinguished talents , endeavoru'ed for a cadetship , which he obtained , and left England for India Avith a bootjack and ten guineas . Giles advanced by
great strides in his career to distinction ; he was present at the taking of the Nepaulese , and assisted at the dismemberment of Lol Sing , a Burfur , or Burrumpooter , of the LoAver Ganges . At jn'esent he is escorting his Treasurer , or Nan-keen , with four chests of rupees , to be deposited in the Bank of Madras , of Avhich there is a Director in company , and of Avhom , as being such , he is naturally jealous .
Giles Scroggins being a military man , has , of course , the privilege of a red nose , Avhich , like the poop lantern of a Dutch admiral of the seventeenth century , is displayed to conspicuous advantage over two cm-led mustachios of most ferocious amplitude , one pointing east , the other west , and daily adjusted by Giles , Avho is a trifle of a coxcomb , by his
ivory compass . Giles Avears his usual travelling dress of yelloAv leather , and the only token of his military rank is a peAvter medal- emblazoned Avith the arms of England , and on the
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Carnaby The First.
his taxes ; his mother was a Scotchwoman , educated in Denmark ; and his grandfather a Pole , AVIIO early emigrated to Kamskatka , and married a Japanese princess of the fifteenth loAver empire . Perkin has a large face and small features , his eyes being round and grey , his nose a corkscreAV sort of nose , of a somewhat diligently persuasive twistand his mouth small ordinarilybut
, , capable of indefinite expansion . Master Perkin Peterkin ' s body is long , and his legs short , Avhich naturally interferes Avith the symmetry of his lower man . He wears a sUgarloaf hat , Avith an ornament of brass beads tAvining spirally up it , and Avith a single red , soldier ' s feather ; a bright green coat , vrith large horn buttons and yelloAv linings ; and ample Turkish trousers ,
slit doAA'n the sides for the adequate stowage of two large pipes , one of Avhich he highly values as having been smoked by the Emperor Napoleon during the btn'ning of MOSCOAV . Perkin ' s voice is a shrill Avhistling sort of voice , something like the wind through the keyhole of a street-door .
2 . Giles Scroggins .- who , as our readers will perhaps remember , courted Molly or Margaret BroAvn , an old lady living in Cheshire during the latter half of the past or the beginning of the present century . Mr . Giles is just as long as his friend and chieftain Perkin Peterkin is broad . Called Longitude at college from the many high degrees he had taken in his
growth , Giles Scroggins had early seen the necessity of stirring himself in the Avorld ; and at the earnest advice of the then Lord Mayor , Longitude , who felt sensibly the arguments of his lordship as to his distinguished talents , endeavoru'ed for a cadetship , which he obtained , and left England for India Avith a bootjack and ten guineas . Giles advanced by
great strides in his career to distinction ; he was present at the taking of the Nepaulese , and assisted at the dismemberment of Lol Sing , a Burfur , or Burrumpooter , of the LoAver Ganges . At jn'esent he is escorting his Treasurer , or Nan-keen , with four chests of rupees , to be deposited in the Bank of Madras , of Avhich there is a Director in company , and of Avhom , as being such , he is naturally jealous .
Giles Scroggins being a military man , has , of course , the privilege of a red nose , Avhich , like the poop lantern of a Dutch admiral of the seventeenth century , is displayed to conspicuous advantage over two cm-led mustachios of most ferocious amplitude , one pointing east , the other west , and daily adjusted by Giles , Avho is a trifle of a coxcomb , by his
ivory compass . Giles Avears his usual travelling dress of yelloAv leather , and the only token of his military rank is a peAvter medal- emblazoned Avith the arms of England , and on the