Captain Quod appeared in a
venerable dresscoat of the Melton Hunt, made in the popular reign of Mr.
Errington, whose much-stained and smeared silk facings bore testimony to
the good cheer it had seen. As if in contrast to the light airiness of this
garment, Quod had on a tremendously large shaggy brown waistcoat, with horn
buttons, a double tier of pockets, and a nick out in front. With an unfair
partiality his nether man was attired in a pair of shabby old black, or
rather brown, dress trousers, thrust into long Wellington boots with brass
heel spurs. Captain Seedeybuck had on a spruce swallow-tailed green coat of
Sir Harry's, a pair of old tweed trousers of his own, thrust into long
chamois-leather opera-boots, with red morocco tops, giving the whole a very
unique and novel appearance. Mr. Orlando Bugles, though going to drive with
my lady, thought it incumbent to put on his jack-boots, and appeared in
kerseymere shorts, and a highly frogged and furred blue frock-coat, with
the corner of a musked cambric kerchief acting the part of a star on his
breast.
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