"If ye'll no take it amiss, sir," said I, making my obedience, "a notion has just struck me." "Well, what is it ?" said he briskly.
"Well, sir, I have a pair of knee-breeches, of most famous velveteen, double tweel, which have been only once on my legs, and that no farther gone than last Sabbath.

I'm pretty sure they would fit ye in the meantime; and I would just take a pleasure in driving the needle all night, to get your own ready." "A clever thought," said the Englisher.

"Do you think they would fit me ?--Devilish clever thought, indeed." "To a hair," I answered; and cried to Nanse to bring the velveteens.
I do not think he was ten minutes, when lo, and behold! out at the door he went, and away past the shop-window like a lamplighter.

The buttons on the velveteens were glittering like gold at the knees.

Alas! it was like the flash of the setting sun; I never beheld them more.