The Bishop, black as a coal-heaver, in a workingman's cheap cotton shirt (one button was missing from the throat), and in
overalls! That was the most incongruous of all-- the
overalls, frayed at the bottoms, dragged down at the heels, and held up by a narrow leather belt around the hips such as laborers wear.
He discarded Tommy's
overalls, resumed his own rightful attire, and turned away from his string of trout with a sigh.
It was a pallid-eyed youth of eighteen in
overalls who received Michael, receipted for him to the expressman, and carried his crate into a slope-floored concrete room that smelled offensively and chemically clean.
These soiled, once-blue
overalls, these heavy, manure-spotted shoes, this greasy, shapeless straw hat, with its dozen matches showing their red heads over the band, the good soils and fertilizers of Kansas resting placidly in his ears and the lines of his neck--such a Romeo might not tempt his Juliet; he must spruce up.