With two or three other trinkets, small in themselves, but of great regard, which poor Tom , the corporal’s unfortunate brother, had sent him over, with the account of his marriage with the Jew’s widow⸺there was
A Montero -cap and two Turkish tobacco-pipes.
The Montero -cap I shall describe by and bye.⸺The Turkish tobacco-pipes had nothing particular in them, they were fitted up and ornamented as usual, with flexible tubes of Morocco leather and gold wire, and mounted at their ends, the one of them with ivory,—the other with black ebony, tipp’d with silver.
My father, who saw all things in lights different from the rest of the world, would say to the corporal, that he ought to look upon these two presents more as tokens of his brother’s nicety, than his affection.⸺ Tom did not care, Trim , he would say, to put on the cap, or to smoke in the tobacco-pipe of a Jew .⸺God bless your honour, the corporal would say, (giving a strong reason to the contrary)—how can that be?
The Montero-cap was scarlet, of a superfine Spanish cloth, dyed in grain, and mounted all round with fur, except about four inches in the front, which was faced with a light blue, slightly embroidered,—and seemed to have been the property of a Portuguese quartermaster, not of foot, but of horse, as the word denotes.
The corporal was not a little proud of it, as well for its own sake, as the sake of the giver, so seldom or never put it on but upon Gala -days; and yet never was a Montero-cap put to so many uses; for in all controverted points, whether military or culinary, provided the corporal