A fragment. Martin, who loved oddities, procured for himself a strait waistcoat, with 20 buttons and 19 button-holes; and, though he was sadly plagued to button his waistcoat strait, and puzzled to death what to do with the odd button, which sometimes peeped out at top, sometimes at bottom, and sometimes in the middle, yet obstinately persisted that thirty-nine was the perfect number. ...
[London?,
1775?]
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