Let the reader, then, imagine this spectacle of torn garments, tattered hats, and brandished clubsnot forgetting the tatterdemalion negro children, who ran after the crowd in the last state of dilapidation, and he will have some slight idea of the masquerade, over which rode, in supreme majesty, the trunk-nosed Mr. O'Brallaghan.

This tatterdemalion crew of mine is all there is left of my cohorts.

II The Battalion, headed by their tatterdemalion pipers, stumped into the town in due course, and were met on the outskirts by the billeting party, who led the various companies to their appointed place.

The War Office Notes, under my hand, speak of these months as the "tatterdemalion stage."