Next time I'll have 'em made to measure with a ten-foot pole instead of a yardstick.

If they're too long I can roll 'em up and let out a link or two when they shrink.
Ever since I was a boy I have been troubled with shrinking pants." Abe wore a blue swallow-tail coat with brass buttons, the tails of which were so short as to be well above the danger of pressure when he sat down.

His cowhide shoes had been well blackened; the blue yarn of his socks showed above them.

"These darned socks of mine are rather proud and conceited," he used to say.

"They like to show off." He wore a shirt of white, unbleached cotton, a starched collar and black tie.
In speaking of his collar to Samson, he said that he felt like a wild horse in a box stall.
Mentor Graham, the schoolmaster, was there--a smooth-faced man with a large head, sandy hair and a small mustache, who spoke by note, as it were.