He wore a suit of coarse tweed, a brown bowler
hat, a blue cotton shirt with white stock and horseshoe pin, rough
brown leggings, tan boots, and in his hand was a dog-whip. This
costume signified that Mr. Gammon felt at leisure, contrasting as
strongly as possible with the garb in which he was wont to go about
his ordinary business--that of commercial traveller. He had a liking
for dogs, and kept a number of them in the back premises of an inn
at Dulwich, whither he usually repaired on Sundays. When at Dulwich,
Mr. Gammon fancied himself in completely rural seclusion; it seemed
to him that he had shaken off the dust of cities, that he was far
from the clamour of the crowd, amid peace and simplicity; hence his
rustic attire, in which he was fond of being photographed with dogs
about him. A true-born child of town, he would have found the real
country quite unendurable; in his doggy rambles about Dulwich he
always preferred a northerly direction, and was never so happy as
when sitting in the inn-parlour amid a group of friends whose voices
rang the purest Cockney.
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