First one came in for his measure, and then another.

A wife came in for a pair of red worsted boots for her bairn, but would not take them for they had not blue fringes.

A bareheaded lassie, hoping to be handsel, threw down twopence, and asked tape at three yards for a halfpenny.

The minister sent an old black coat beneath his maid's arm, pinned up in a towl, to get docked in the tails down into a jacket; which I trust I did to his entire satisfaction, making it fit to a hair.

The Duke's butler himself patronized me, by sending me a coat which was all hair-powder and pomate, to get a new neck put to it.