"I knew it was connected with a _parcel_ somehow.

Well, the _Package_ patterns are very pretty, no doubt, but I think it's time you were properly rigged out." Which was duly done; and when holidays came and the scandalized Mrs.
Bundle asked what I had done "with them bran-new fine linen shirts," and where "them rubbishing cotton rags" had come from that I brought in their place, I could only inform her, with a feeble imitation of Leo's lofty coolness, that I had used the first to clean Damer's lamp, and that the second were the "correct thing." One day I said to him, "I don't know why, Damer, but you always make me think of a vision of one of the Greek heroes when I see you walking in the playing-fields." I believe my simply-spoken compliment deeply gratified him; but he only said, like Mr.Clerke, "You _do_ say the oddest things, little 'un!".