"My best coat was taken possession of by pussy and kittens, so I whipped on"—(Hardware-man) "a dripping pan."
"The monkey, seeing how funny I looked, snatched off my wig, and clapped on my head"—(Poulterer) "a fat hen."
"I now awoke my wife, and asked her what she had nice for breakfast; she said"—(Doctor) "a mustard plaster."
"Then I scolded Sukey, the servant, and called her"—(Poulterer) "a tough old turkey."
"But she saucily told me I was no better than"—(Music-seller) "an old fiddle."
"I soon had enough of that, so I asked my wife to go with me to buy"—(Tailor) "a pair of trousers."
"But she said she must have her lunch first, which consisted of——" etc., etc., through half a dozen pages, the tradesmen supply more or less appropriate articles to fill up the gaps in the discourse.