[ "THERE," SHE CRIED, "YOU CAN CREDIT YOUR
DRESS-SUIT ACCOUNT WITH THAT!" ]
[ "MRS. SKINNER, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ARCHIBALD RUTHERFORD,
OF HASTINGS-ON-THE-HUDSON, ACCOMPANIES HER HUSBAND" ]
[ "WHY CAN'T I GO WITH THOSE PEOPLE," SHE SNIFFLED ]
From Drawings by F. Vaux Wilson
SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT
CHAPTER I
SKINNER ASKS FOR A RAISE
Skinner had inhabited the ironbound enclosure labeled "CASHIER" at McLaughlin & Perkins, Inc., so long, that the messenger boys had dubbed him the "cage man." To them he had become something of a bluff. Skinner's pet abomination was cigarettes, and whenever one of these miniatures in uniform chanced to offend that way, he would turn and frown down upon the culprit. The first time he did this to Mickey, the "littlest" messenger boy of the district, who was burning the stub of a cigarette, Mickey dropped the thing in awe.
But Jimmie of the Postal said, "Don't be scared of him! He's locked up in his cage. He can't get at you!"