He was busying himself in tying up the horrible exhibition in his red handkerchief preparatory to putting on his coonskin cap, for the brisk interest the children took in disrobing, so to speak, his scalpless head, did not extend to the task of properly Accoutering it again, and repairing the disarray they themselves had made, for they had scampered off through the great gate of the fort.
"The Story of Old Fort Loudon"
Charles Egbert Craddock