A good talent, by my faith; it might help many gentlemen to pay their tailors, and I might be one of them.

To-day we will hardly permit an artist an extra half-inch of hair, and he must be very well groomed, very prosperous, businesslike, and, in appearance at least, athleticeven if he must ask his tailor to furnish the look of brawn.

It even takes in tailors, for, by a wise provision of Providence, the number of tailors in this world at any one time is always a multiple of nine; so that you can point to any nine of them and boldly say, a man.

ALADDIN'S WONDERFUL LAMP There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy, who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself.

"We mean to fight, and not to pray," cried the valorous tailor.

Mrs Mitchell had taken an immense fancy to Edith and showed it by telling her all about a wonderful little tailor who made coats and skirts better than Lucile for next to nothing, and by introducing to her Lord Rye and the embassy man, and Mr Cricker.

Ali Baba found the quarters, took them home, got a blind tailor to sew them together, and gave his brother burial.

My first duty to myself and my fellow citizens is to seek a tailor and replenish my wardrobe.

I also carried a tailor, who consented to stay in my plantation, and proved a most necessary fellow in the island.

His wristbands and black gloves, his hat and nicely clipped hair, his laudable moderation in beard, and his evident discrimination in choosing his tailor, all seemed to excuse the prevalent estimate of him as a man untainted with heterodoxy, and likely to be so unencumbered with opinions that he would always be useful as an assenting and admiring listener.

The knight was informed of this, and therefore commanded the tailor to cut his gown as full of holes as his shears could make.

"'In that case!' declared the tailor, 'I'll tear up my bill!' which he did, and Sheridan thereupon promptly paid him.

As to male dress, an English gentleman always desires his tailor to avoid the extremes of fashion; and, as his dress is grave and manly, it is generally followed throughout Europe.

Dukes and princes consulted him on the make of their coats, and discussed tailors with him with as much solemnity as divines might dispute on a mystery of religion.

Petruchio, having dispatched the tailor and haberbasher, proceeds "Well, come my Kate: we will unto your father's, Even in these honest mean habiliments; Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;"p.

" The late Mr. Grahame of Garsock, in Strathearn, whose grandson now "is laird himsel," used to tell, with great unction, some thirty years ago, a story of a neighbour of his own of a still earlier generation, Drummond of Keltie, who, as it seems, had employed an itinerant tailor instead of a metropolitan artist.

In his flight he came to a large city, where he encountered a tailor, who gave him food and lodging.

It happened, one John Drakes, a shoemaker, coming into the shop, liked it so well, that he went and bought of the same, as much for himself, enjoining the tailor to make it of the same fashion.

He paused, however, for three days, as it was absolutely necessary for him to obtain a fit-out of fresh uniforms before rejoining, and at Galata he found European tailors perfectly capable of turning out such articles.

For a good many years now, Fenwick had been always well and carefully dressedan evident Londoner, accustomed to drawing-rooms and frequenting expensive tailors.

And Nature gave him such a frame, His tailor such a fit, That, whether a head or a heart his aim, He always made a hit.

and then I made him a jerkin of goat's-skin, as well as my skill would allow (for I was now grown a tolerable good tailor;) and I gave him a cap, which I made of hare's-skin, very convenient and fashionable enough: and thus he was clothed for the present, tolerably well, and was mighty well pleased to see himself almost as well clothed as his master.

In the first are his social studies and problem novels, such as Alton Locke (1850), having for its hero a London tailor and poet, and Yeast (1848), which deals with the problem of the agricultural laborer.

The chiefs were all handsomely attired, their clothes fitting to a hair's breadth, for they had imported a tailor from England to make them.

In a drunken frolic he intercepts a tailor taking home a new dress to lady Brute; he insists on arraying himself therein, is arrested for a street row, and taken before the justice of the peace.