" TAKING HIS MEASURE."
A very high-toned-looking young man in exquisite moustache, loud plaid clothes, red necktie, low-crowned hat, straw-coloured kids, and knitting-needle cane, walked into a tobacco shop, and throwing down a halfcrown on the counter, said, " Well, this is the worst town I ever saw ; a gentleman can't g&t anything in it satisfactory, and I am utterly unable to see how a person of fastidious taste can live here. I say, Mr, Shopkeeper, can you sell a fellow a decent :igar ?" " Yes, Sir," said the cigar man, meekly. 11 Well, then, look lively, and do it. Don't you sqe that half-crown ?" " Yes, Sir. What kind of a cigar do you wish. Sir?" ' " What kind ?" 11 Yes, Sir." " Why, look at me, Sir, for a moment, and see for yourself what kind of a cigar would suit me," and he drew himself up grandly and gazed down on the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper looked, took in the halfcrown, got out a cigar, and handed it to the man with two shillings and fivepence change.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 127, 30 May 1891, Page 4
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173" TAKING HIS MEASURE." Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 127, 30 May 1891, Page 4
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