After she had gone, Mr.Lawson returned to the front part of the store, and taking up the vest, brought it back to where an elderly man was sitting, and holding it towards him, said, by way of apology for the part he had taken in the little scene: "That's a beautiful article for a gentleman to wear--isn't it ?" The man made no reply, and the tailor, after a pause, added-- "I refused to pay her, as a matter of principle.

She knew she couldn't make the garment when she took it away.

She will be more careful how she tries again to impose herself upon customer tailors as a good vest maker." "Perhaps," said the old gentleman, in a mild way, "necessity drove her to you for work, and tempted her to undertake a job that required greater skill than she possessed.

She certainly looked very poor." "It was because she appeared so poor and miserable that I was weak enough to place the vest in her hands," replied Mr.Lawson, in a less severe tone of voice.

"But it was an imposition in her to ask for work that she did not know how to make." "Brother Lawson," said the old gentleman, who was a fellow member of the church, "we should not blame, with too much severity, the person who, in extreme want, undertakes to perform work for which he does not possess the requisite skill.