THE TAILOR'S REVENGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 153, 29 June 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE TAILOR'S REVENGE.

A London tailor recently transacted some legal business with a well-known attorney, and in due course had a bill delivered to >"tti containing such a variety of unexpected charges that he thought himself fleeced most unmercifully. The only satisfaction which occurred to him was to prevail on the lawyer to have a 1 suit of clothes from him, for which he in his turn gave the following bill: — To measuring and taking orders for suit of clothes £0 6 8 Warrant and instructions to my foreman for executing the same 0 6 8 Going three times to the wopllendrapor's 0 10 0 Fees to the woollen-draper ....,* 4 4 0 Cutting out the cloth ■ 0 .6 8 Materials for working 110 Trying the suit ...'. 0 13 4 Alterations and amendments 1 8 0 Entering it in my day book O 10 6 Posting it in my ledger *~ .068 Engrossing the same 0 13 4 Writing to the button merchant .. 0 6 8 Removing the suit from my house to Gray's Inn J i 1 0 Removing it by certiorari from Gray's Inn to your country house 16 0 Writing out a receipt with stamp . 0 12 0 Filing the same ».....«...—. 0 6 (5 Service of the same ...'..-....— .. 0 5 0 Ditto eight times more „.....-„.♦. 2 0 0 £16 4 '.0

Of course, the lawyer didn't pay the tailor's bill, as presented, but in some respects the charges made by the mam of cloth are not much less grotesque than some of tfhe items that fignre in, bills tendered by men of law to Hheax clients. , a