No use for ramshackle farmin' they'd have, an' no use for me, nuther, with their top boots an' stovepipe hats.

Sometimes he hummed snatches of Army tunes, and sometimes Rance Belmont swore softly, and to the anxious ear which listened at the stovepipe-hole above, both sounds were of surpassing sweetness! CHAPTER XI.

There is no humour in the old, bitter-true stovepipe jests of the comic papers.