His eyes were
red, cunning, and sinister-looking; his lips thin, and from under the
upper one projected a single tooth, long and yellow as saffron. His
face was of unusual length, and his parchment cheeks formed two inward
curves, occasioned by the want of his back teeth. His breeches were open
at the knees; his polar legs were without stockings; but his old brogues
were foddered, as it is called, with a wisp of straw, to keep his feet
warm. His arms were long, even in proportion to his body, and his bony
fingers resembled claws rather than anything! else we can now remember.
They (the claws): were black as ebony, and resembled in length and
sharpness those of a cat when she is stretching herself after rising
from the! hearth. He wore an old _barrad_ of the day, the greasy top of
which fell down upon the collar of his old cloak, and over his shoulder
was a bag which, from its appearance, must have contained something not
very weighty, as he walked on without seeming to travel as a man who
carried a burden. He had a huge staff in his right hand, the left having
a hold of his bag.
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