The long and the short of the matter, however, was, that, after rummaging among my two or three webs of broadcloth on the shelf, he pitched on a Manchester blue, five quarters wide, marked CXD.XF, which is to say, three-and-twenty shillings the yard.

I told him it was impossible to make a pair of pantaloons to him in two hours; but he insisted upon having them, alive or dead, as he had to go down the same afternoon to dine with my Lord Duke, no less.

I convinced him, that if I was to sit up all night, he could get them by five next morning, if that would do, as I would also keep my laddie, Tammy Bodkin, out of his bed; but no--I thought he would have jumped out of his seven senses.
"Just look," he said, turning up the inside seam of the leg--"just see--can any gentleman make a visit in such things as these?
they are as full of holes as a coal-sieve.

I wonder the devil why my baggage has not come forward.

Can I get a horse and boy to ride express to Edinburgh for a ready-made article ?" A thought struck me; for I had heard of wonderful advancement in the world, for those who had been so lucky as help the great at a pinch.