"Oh, gemini!" said he, "but that jacket is a rouser!

I would write a rouser for it.

You see how handy and quick he is about a vessel's decks, shipmates; a ra'al rouser at a weather earin'well, when he first come aboard here, and that was little more than two years ago, the smell of tar would almost make him swound away."

Mencken on Barkley: a competent rabble-rouser, but plenty of empty seats.

Mencken on Barkley: a competent rabble-rouser, but plenty of empty seats.

As I returned her kiss her glance dropped on a small bunch by her side, which Mehitable took and deftly unrolled, informing me as she did so that it was a "Rouser.