![]() ![]() No one lived there at nights but little brown mice, and they ran in and out without any keys! The tailor came out of his shop at dark, for he did not sleep there at nights he fastened the window and locked the door, and took away the key. And everything was ready to sew together in the morning, all measured and sufficient-except that there was wanting just one single skein of cherry-coloured twisted silk. ![]() For the lining of the coat there was fine yellow taffeta, and for the buttonholes of the waistcoat there was cherry-coloured twist. ![]() There were twelve pieces for the coat and four pieces for the waistcoat and there were pocket-flaps and cuffs and buttons, all in order. When the snow-flakes came down against the small leaded window-panes and shut out the light, the tailor had done his day's work all the silk and satin lay cut out upon the table. "No breadth at all, and cut on the cross it is no breadth at all tippets for mice and ribbons for mobs! for mice!" said the Tailor of Gloucester. ![]() He measured the silk, and turned it round and round, and trimmed it into shape with his shears the table was all littered with cherry-coloured snippets. The tailor worked and worked, and he talked to himself. worsted chenille) for the Mayor of Gloucester. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |