"You made a pretty good imitation," said the knight of the scissors, who had already commenced operations on Tom's head.
"That's what all the ladies told me," said Tom. "They said they wouldn't have knowed me from the genooine article."
In about twenty minutes the task was completed.
"How's that?" said the barber.
Tom looked in the mirror, and hardly recognized his image, so much was it altered by the careful arrangement of his hair.
"If it wasn't for the clo'es," he said, "I would think it was another boy."
He paid his bill and left the hotel.
"The next thing must be some new clo'es," he said to himself; "then I'll begin to feel respectable."
CHAPTER VIII.
THE EFFECT OF A NEW SUIT.