Why, there's Tights, Screw, & Co., see how they're cutting into the trade, and carrying every thing before them.

Tights told me that they cleared twenty thousand dollars last year." "No doubt of it.

And I'll make our house do the same before three years roll over, or I'm no prophet." "If we are going to play this cutting-down game, we had better begin at once." "Oh, certainly.

The sooner the better.

But first, we must arrange a reduced scale of prices, and then bring our whole tribe of workwomen and others down to it at once.