A face, with a certain mocking monkeyish expression, but without any trait of fierceness or ill-nature--a nose slightly snub--quick scintillating eyes--a chin, tipped with a little tuft of clay-coloured beard--some half-dozen queue-like tangles, of bright-yellowish hair, hanging down behind the hat--the hat itself a black "silk," badly battered--such were the salient points of the portrait appearing above the knee-caps of the taller man. With the exception of the "tile," his costume was altogether military--to me well-known. It was the ordinary undress of the mounted rifles: a dark-green round-about of coarse cloth--with a row of small brass buttons from throat to waist--and overalls of the same material. In the particular sample before us, _overalls_ was rather an inappropriate name. The garment so designated scarcely covered the calves of the wearer's legs--though of these there was not much to cover. The jacket appeared equally scant; and between its bottom border and the waistband of the trousers, there was an interval of at least six inches. In this interval was seen a shirt of true Isabella colour, which also appeared over the breast--the jacket being worn unbuttoned. The frouzy cotton was visible at other places-- peeping through various rents both in jacket and trousers. A black leather stock concealed the collar of the shirt--if there was any--and though the stock itself was several inches in depth, there were other several inches of naked neck rising above its rim. Coarse woollen socks, and the cheap _contract_ shoe completed the costume of Sure-shot--for it was he.