Obedient very humble servant,
GILBERT GRIPES.
THE ANSWER TO THE SAME.
The sample is tolerable—send in thirty dozen—add them to your account—and let my steward have them punctually on December 17, 1849.
BOSKEY.
P.S.—I expect you’ll allow discount.
(Secondly.)
From a creditor, being a “victim,” “schneider,” “sufferer,” or “tailor,” to one who sets off his wares by wearing the same, being consequently a debtor.
HONOURED SIR,—I can scarcely express my delight at your kind compliments as to the fit and patterns of the last seventy-three summer waistcoats; the rest of the order is in hand. I enclose a small account of 490l. odd, which will just meet a heavy demand. Will you, sir, forward the same by return of post, to your obliged and devoted
Humble servant,
ADOLPHUS JULIO BACKSTITCH.