"I never calls it purchasing of things, sir, when a customer comes in and says, 'Just cut me off so and so, and send it up.' They be sold, of course, if you look at it in that light; but I'm best pleased when buyers examines the goods, and chats a bit over their merits.

Susan Peckaby, now, she--" "What did Rachel Frost buy ?" interrupted Mr.Verner, who knew what Mrs.
Duff's tongue was, when it was once set going.
"She looked in at the shop, sir, while I was a-serving little Green with some bone buttons, that her mother had sent her for.

'I want some Irish for aprons, Mrs.Duff,' says she.

'Cut off the proper quantity for a couple, and send it me up some time to-morrow.

I'd not give the trouble,' says she, 'but I can't wait to take it now, for I'm in a hurry to get home, and I shall be wanting the aprons.' 'What quality--pretty good ?' said I.'Oh, you know,' says she; 'about the same that I bought last time.