"Match it!" I cried. "Oh, no! it don't match it. You didn't want that matched. You were mistaken. What you wanted was Turkey-red—third counter to the left. I mean, Turkey-red is what they use."
My wife looked at me in amazement, and then I detailed to her my troubles.
"Well," said she, "this Turkey-red is a great deal prettier than what I had, and you've got so much of it that I needn't use the other at all. I wish I had thought of Turkey-red before."
"I wish from my heart you had," said I.
ANDREW SCOGGIN.
—The Lady or the Tiger, and other stories.