ABSTRACT
W.M. Parker [Hardy] was dressed in a very dark blue suit and a black and white waistcoat, showing above it a thin rim of white linen collar. His small feet were encased in black shoes. He sat with one leg thrown over the other. An acute sensitiveness was at once apparent. His small, rather stumpy, hands would twitch from time to time in nervous movement. Characteristic little mannerisms were exhibited in the play of his left hand, the thumb and forefinger of which he would stretch across the ridge of the left crossed leg, or he would deposit the thumb only inside the left trouser pocket. An impression of one or another of these mannerisms has been seized in certain photographic reproductions.
