By Nathaniel Hawthorne
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(Part 4)

Feathertop found the streets in town, and many people started to look at him. They looked at his beautiful purple coat and his white silk stockings and at the pipe he carried in his left hand, which he put back into his mouth every five steps he walked. They thought he was a visitor of great importance.

“What a fine, noble face” one man said. “He surely is somebody,” said another. “A great leader of men.”

As Feathertop walked along one of the q...