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I was enabled to discharge the onerous duties of this profession, only by
that rigid adherence to system which formed the leading feature of my mind. A
scrupulous method characterized my actions as well as my accounts. In my case it
was method --- not money --- which made the man: at least all of him that was
not made by the tailor whom I served. At nine, every morning, I called upon that
individual for the clothes of the day. Ten o'clock found me in some fashionable
promenade or other place of public amusement. The precise regularity with which
I turned my handsome person about, so as to bring successively into view every
portion of the suit upon my back, was the admiration of all the knowing men in
the trade. Noon never passed without my bringing home a customer to the house of
my employers, Messrs. Cut & Comeagain. I say this proudly, but with tears in
my eyes --- for the firm proved themselves the basest of ingrates. The little
account, about which we quarreled and finally parted, cannot, in any item, be
thought overcharged, by gentlemen really conversant with the nature of the
business. Upon this point, however, I feel a degree of proud satisfaction in
permitting the reader to judge for himself. My bill ran thus:
Messrs. Cut & Comeagain,
Merchant Tailors.
To Peter Proffit, Walking Advertiser |
Drs. |
| JULY 10. |
To promenade, as usual and
customer brought home |
$00 25 |
| JULY 11. |
To do
do do |
25 |
| JULY 12. |
To one lie, second class; damaged
black cloth sold for invisible green |
25 |
| JULY 13. |
To one lie, first class, extra
quality and size; recommended milled satinet as broadcloth |
75 |
| JULY 20. |
To purchasing bran new paper
shirt collar or dickey, to set off gray Petersham |
02 |
| AUG. 15. |
To wearing double-padded bobtail
frock, (thermometer 706 in the shade) |
25 |
| AUG. 16. |
Standing on one leg three hours,
to show off new-style strapped pants at 12 1/2 cents per leg per hour |
37 1/2 |
| AUG. 17. |
To promenade, as usual, and large
customer brought (fat man) |
50 |
| AUG. 18. |
To do
do (medium size) |
25 |
| AUG. 19. |
To do
do (small man and bad pay) |
06 |
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Total: |
$2 95 1/2 |
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