Bejacketed

The camel had been to me but an ungainly and mis-shapen monster, the type of all awkwardness, while a monkey—the caricature animal—or some bejacketed dog, on his back, had fastened the gaunt form in the memory as ludicrous.

When, then, passing from the graceful freedom of pure savage life, one beholds them betrousered, bejacketed, waistcoated, with old wide-awakes and forage-caps and corduroys, one recoils instinctively from this first ungainly, unsightly development of civilization.

Seriously, though, is this silly demoiselle any more than her bejacketed escort who executes that bow-armed, bow-legged evolution called “doing the English?”

The dog had a brief disagreement with two bejacketed spaniels who, along with their owner – presumably a photographer, as he was carrying an enormous tripod – were the only beings we’d seen since we ditched the bikes.