During that period an Englishman, who had brought letters to a gentleman in Boston and in consequence had been asked to dinner, entered the house of his host in a tweed suit.

His host, in evening dress of course, met him in the hall.
"Oh, I see," said the Bostonian, "that you haven't your dress suit with you.

The man will take you upstairs and one of mine will fit you well enough.

We'll wait." In England, a cricketer from Philadelphia, after the match at Lord's, had been invited to dine at a great house with the rest of his eleven.
They were to go there on a coach.

The American discovered after arrival that he alone of the eleven had not brought a dress suit with him.