I remain, enclosing your lordship's small account, the
payment of which will be most acceptable to your lordship's most
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.
P. Pink, Esq., &c. &c.
ANSWER TO THE SAME
_Albany_.
You be d--d, _Backstitch_.
PENTWISTLE PINK.
(Thirdly.)
From a constituent in the country, being a creditor "upon promises," to a
returned member of Parliament in town.
_Bumbleton Butts, April 1, 1841_.
DEAR SIR,--The enthusiastic delight myself (an humble individual) and the
immense body of your enraptured constituents felt upon reading your truly
patriotic, statesman-like, learned, straightforward and consistent speech,
may be conceived by a person of your immense parliamentary imagination,
but cannot be expressed by my circumscribed vocabulary.
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