IN WHAT WAY MR.

JEREMIAH SUPPLIES THE WANT OF HIS COAT.
The play-hour was arrived; and yet no coat was forthcoming from the tailor: on the contrary, the tailor himself was gone to the play.

The landlord of the Double-barrelled Gun, who would readily have lent one, was off upon a rural excursion, and not expected at home before the next morning; and the waiter, whose assistance would not have been disdained in such a pressing emergency, was of so spare and meagre a habit, that, in spite of furious exertions on the part of Mr.Schnackenberger, John's coat would not let itself be entered upon by this new tenant.

In this exigency, John bethought him of an old clothesman in the neighbourhood.

There he made inquiries.