The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 5 Page 24

“They would envy me if they knew this Sagamore as I think I know him,” said I, delighted that I was not to lie in barracks foul or clean. “Where is this same humble hut, my fashionable friend?”

“I’ll show you presently. I think that Jimmy Parr desires to see your gentle savage,” he added flippantly.

We seated ourselves on the gate-bench to await the Major’s summons; the dandified young ensign crossed the parade, mincing toward the quarters of Major Parr. And I saw him take a pinch o’ the scented snuff he affected, and whisk his supercilious nose again with his laced hanker. It seemed odd that a man like that should have saved our Captain Simpson’s life at Saratoga.

Riflemen, drovers, batt-men, frontier farmers, and some of the dirty flotsam —