The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-31 00:00:00

• • • COURT OF REQUESTS.
THE CASE.OF THE SAGE-GREEN BREE ES.
• 1313.0)W N V. GREEN.
Mr. Christopher Green appeared upon su coons
to show cause why he should not be coMpe ed t(
pay the suni of it. 175., alleged to be due fro him
to. Mr. Benjamin Brown' for work done and per.
formed. To which summons Mr. Christopher
Green pleaded " error i' th' bill ;"—and thereupon
issue was joined.
Mr. Benjamin Brown then—in the first p)ace—
tucked his hat between his knees ; secondly, he put
on his spectacles ; thirdly, he unrolled a copy of his
bill, as delivered to the defendant ; and, fourthly,
stretching it out to its full length, of half a yard, of
thereabout, he held it up before his spectacles, and
read from it us follows
" Imprimis—To fine-drawing the sleeve of your
best black coat, where it was torn by the nail in
Mrs. Jenkins's chair-back, as I were credible in-
formed, sixpence."
" Good,"—said Mr. Christoper Green;—" I con-
fess to the fine-drawing of the sleeve. Go on."
" Item—To lengthening the legs of a pair of
second-handed bine trousers, and taking in the
shuperfluity of the hind parts of the same,—three
and nine-pence ; including a new flannel fob, in re-
gard of your saying you thought flannel wore your
watch brighter nor cotton."
did so;" said Mr. Christopher Green.—" Go

" Item—To taking a tuck in the skirts of your
wife's puce pelisse, and letting out the buzzum of
the same, in regard she was getting too jolly for it;
five and sixpence, and three-pence ha'penny exter
for hooks and eyes."
" Good ;" said Mr. Christopher Green, " but
that was a job for which I gave no orders; and you
ought not to have gone into it without first consult-
ing me. However, go on."
" Item.—To repairing a shute of clothes for your
biggest little boy ; and putting a patch on the knee
of his every-day corduroys,—two shillings."
" Granted ;" said Mr. Christopher Green.
" Dem.—To seating your sage-green breeches"—
" Ah, there it is !" said Mr. Christopher Green.—
" There lies the error !—I deny that I ever had a
pair of sage-green breeches."
" Gracious me!" cried Mr. Benjamin Brown,
taking off his spectacles.—" Surely, Mr. Green, yeu
won't go for to deny your sage-green breeches?"
Indeed but I will though !" replied Mr. Green.
—" I never had a pair of sage-green breeches. I
hate sage-green breeches; and nothing on earth
should prevail upon me to put on sage-green breeches.
—l'd scorn the action !"
" And why so, Mr. Green ?" demanded the
Court.
" That is a question which I do not see any ne-
cessity for my answering. It is sufficient that I
utterly detest and deny them ;" replied Mr. Green.
" Oh, dear me !" exclaimed Mr. Brown, " Only
think that a gentleman—standing before this here
honourable Court—should go for to deny them ere
sage greens 1"
Here Mr. Green lost what little patience he had,
and literally "---" the sage greens. But, in the
altercation which ensued thereupon, the cause of
his mortal antipathy to sage greens was in some
degree ascertained. They were the personal pro-
perty of a lodger of his, who wore them with such
a grace as did repeatedly call forth encomiums from
Mrs. Green, to the exceeding great annoyance of
Mr. Green; who repeatedly admonished Mrs.
Green not to mention them; and, finding his ad-
monitions were of non-effect, he expelled the sage-
green-breeches'd lodger from his premises. Where-
upon, the lodger,— either in revenge for the said
expulsion, or from an innate propensity to evil, or
from a lack of the root of all evil, did surreptitiously
send those identical sage greens to be seated in Mr.
Green's name.
Evidence of ull this having been adduced to the
satisfaction of the Court, the obnoxious sage-greens
were struck out of Mr. Brown's bill, and Mr. Green
paid the residue thereof instanter.