So we picked out a good looking man for Lord High Chancellor, and gave him a piece of red ribbon to tie in his button-hole.

He hadn't any button-hole anywhere, except in his trousers, so he tied it to the string which fastened his shirt together at the collar.

Four old men we appointed to be courtiers, and made them button up their coats.

For a wonder, they all had coats.

We also made a Lord High Sheriff and a Royal Beadle, and an Usher of the White Wand, an officer Mrs.Chipperton had read about, and to whom we gave a whittled stick, with strict instructions not to jab anybody with it.