THOSE BLOOMERS AGAIN.
Into the tailor's presence she came like a shot from a gun, and looked such daggers at him that he felt inclined to run. Her black eyes flashed with anger, and her language was profuse, and when she raised a threatening hand he trembled in his shoes. "You ninth part of a man!" she yelled: " I'll crush you as a fly! This earthly planet never held a greater fright than I. Gaze on the bloomers which I wear. You made them, sir, for me. Don't look, with such a stupid stare, but scan them carefully! You guaranteed a perfect fit to measure, which I brought. Now, do you think it strange a bit that lam fighting hot? Gaze on them well, you senseless goose. Say am I not a fright. ? Where they are tight they should be loose: where loose they should be tight." She slowly turned that he might scan the fitness of the clothes, and as he gazed the tailor man blushed like a red, red rose. With laugh suppressed, and bows profuse, he said she'd spoken right—where they were tight they should be loose; where loose they should be tight. " These no doubt are the first," said he, " that madam ever wore. You've made a slight mistake, I see. They're on wrong side before!" A redder blush, the tailor said, he never, never saw, and as she in confusion fled he laughed haw! haw! haw ! haw !
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2087, 23 July 1901, Page 3
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