There was one Beaver, however, who shouted angrily that he knew his suit wasn't fashionable and that he wouldn't accept it.
XV
EVERYONE IS HAPPY
Mr. Frog led the angry Beaver around to the front of his shop, while the others followed, and pointed to his sign.
"There!" he said. "Don't you see that I claim to be an unfashionable tailor? You'll have to keep that suit, and pay me for it, too. And so will everybody else."
But the whole Beaver family cried out that they objected. "No one ever pays his tailor," they told Mr. Frog. "It's not the fashionable thing to do."
Even then Ferdinand Frog continued to smile at them. He was such an agreeable chap!
"I know it's not fashionable now," he admitted, "but it will be five years from now. And since it's my way to collect on delivery, I'll thank you to step up one at a time and pay me. . . . And please don't crowd!" he added.
There was really no need of that last warning, because nobody made a move.