Stomper, without batting an eye, let fly with a hand-tooled boot that sent the young boggie bouncing like a jai-alai ball.

Perfectly groomed, his wide white hat topping coal-black hair that hung to his shoulders, a drooping black mustache and a black broadcloth suit, the trousers tucked into hand-tooled boots, Morton Harper had been a picture to take any eye.

The man dealt, as Moss Burton did, in fancy bridles, saddles, hand-tooled boots, and such things, doing his work on the premises in full view of the passers-by, for the shop's front was open when business was being carried on.

As for himself, though he had been fitted out in lobstertail helmet, leather buffcoat and steel cuirass, vambraces, cuishes and gauntlets, and had a broadsword-somewhat altered-depending from a wide leather baldric, the clothing beneath was anachronistic-his old GI coveralls and a handsome pair of hand-tooled Western boots.

The sharp-looking character with the leather jacket and the hand-tooled boots had to be Bonehead.

Sure is, boss-hat, shirt, britches-even spang-new hand-tooled boots.

The Mexican wore buckskin breeches, hand-tooled boots, and one ivory-butted gun.