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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15444, 5 September 1914, Page 3

THE NINE TAILORS. The story is told somewhat in. the following way : Nine tailors were working together in a warm comfortable room ; the season was mid-winter, and all without was s'ee!,, snow, and bitter cold. A poor, hungry, ill-clad tramp, knocked at the workshop door, and solicited alms, saying. lie had walked many a mile, and was faint for lack of warmth and food. The kindly tailors not only shared their meal with him, .but sent him away rejoising, with a few pence in his pocket, and ho exclaimed gratefully. "Vou have inado a man of me!" In nine tailors "make a man" in this sense, so much the more to their credit. ANOTHER STORY. In 1742 an orphan boy applied for alms at a fashionable tailor's shop in London, in which some journeymen were employed. His interesting appearance opened the hearts of the gentlemen of the cloth, who immediately contributed nine shillings for the relief of the little stranger. With this capital our grateful hero purchased fruit, which he retailed at a profit. Time passed on, and wealth and honour smiled upon the young tradesman, so that when he set up his carriage, instead of troubling the Hoarlds' College for a crest he painted the following motto on the panel: ''Nine tailors made me a man." As far back as 1(382, in a book called '"Grammatical Drollery," one of these stories made, it appearance in a versified form : "There is a proverb which has been of old, And many men hare likewise been so told, To the discredit of the taylorsl' trade. Nine tavlors goo to make a man, tliey say. But lor their credit I'll unriddle it t' vee: A draper once fell into poverties Nine ta.y'.ors joined their purses together then. To set him up, and make him a man agen." —C'hanihere' Journal, May, 1872. H. S. LAMB and CO., THl'j 'J AILORS. Church Street. New Season's Coeds have arrived.