to be considered a beau.

Equally interesting with the body of this unique tub was its high back.
At the touch of a spring a small panel on the inside slid to one side,
disclosing a mirror. By the pressing of two other springs, one on each
side, the entire back could be tilted to the angle most comfortable for
repose, if one happened to be sitting in the body of the tub. The back
was covered, as though for protection, by a sheet of canvas. This
could be drawn up, half of it pulled forward over the top, like a hood
or canopy. Held in this position by an ingenious arrangement of
umbrella ribs, it formed a protection against sun or rain. On the
whole, Paymaster Bullen's bathtub was a remarkable institution, and one
to which he was so attached that he would on no account undertake a
journey on which it might not accompany him.

"How could I take my regular morning bath without it? or how could I
transport the necessities of my toilet so safely and conveniently in
any other way?" were to him unanswerable arguments in its favor.

It was useless to reply that a tub might be dispensed with in a country
abounding in streams and lakes, or that the niceties of the toilet were
not always considered in the wilderness.

He would answer, that while the crude bathing facilities afforded by
nature might suffice for the primitive requirements of the untutored
savage, a tub was a necessity to which he, as a refined product of
civilization, had always been accustomed, and did not propose to
forego. Also that to the toilet of an officer and a gentleman certain
well-recognized adjuncts were as indispensable in the wilderness as in
the town.

He spent so much of his leisure sitting or reclining in his beloved
tub, gloating over its many admirable points and reflecting upon its
possibilities, that his brother officers rarely spoke of him by any
other name than that of "Diogenes."

Donald Hester of course knew nothing of the wonderful tub, nor of
another whim of the paymaster's, which was that an officer should never
appear in public save in uniform. Consequently, when the little man
approached the canoe landing, resplendent in scarlet and gold, and
followed by his valet staggering beneath the weight of the tub, Donald
turned to Ensign Christie for an explanation of the phenomenon, while
the latter expressed his feelings by a prolonged whistle. Two canoes
and several Indian canoemen had been provided by Sir William for the
trans