The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-05
He Wanted Some Collars.

on South Pearl street, yesterday, and
entered q gents furnishing store A
pair of blue overalls, with old-gold knee
patches, were thrust into his rubber
boots, and surcingle surrounded his
overcoat at the waist In his hand he
held hickory whip-stalk, around which
was curled a braid lash.
Hev you got any collars? ?" he asked.
"What kind of collars do you wish ?"
queried the clerk, as he threw back the
top of his face like trunk cover and
disclosed smile large enough for tar
get at 900 yards
eff wanted boss collars, young man,
I should go to harness-shop; want
some collars for my son; brought
load of hay to town, an he told me to
get him some col"
cob, we can fit you in collars" put
in the clerk, and he brought down four
boxes at once. Here, sir, is some
thing fine-warranted four-ply linen
will wear like sheet-iron; it is called
the Khedive of Egypt "a very fash
ionable shape-not very wide, you see,
but just the thing for short neck-sold
seventeen dozen to clerk in the secre-
tary of states office, ten minutes before
you came IN
/" / don't" began the granger, but
! {ho al ha1 nc,,rrl,t h,o hrno+h 0,,l h.
gan to work his jaws again:
"Don't like it? Here's another
very fine shape-quite wide, you OBJ
serve, but just the garment for long
neck; see how artistically those corners
incline outward-we call this the Kassa
of Abyssinia no"
"But," broke in the countryman,
! CT"
"Don't exactly strike your fancy, ell ?
Well, here's something that no man has
yet looked at without buying this col
lar was designed for us by one of the
| greatest artists in France our right to
manufacture it is guaranteed by letters
patent issued in North and South Amer
| lea, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the north
ern district of New Jersey; rival deal
ers, jealous of the popularity of this
! collar, have endeavored to initiate it F.; by
recourse to law we are furnishing in
fringers of our rights, however, and
only last week two of the scoundrels
were sentenced to State prison for life
for counterfeiting, forgery, highway
robbery and burglary we have just
been compelled to put in new eighty
horse power engine to run the knives
that cut these collars, and only yester-
day we shipped carload of them to
Undertook; in week any man found
on the streets without one of them will
be ridiculed by those who keep up with
the fashion, stunned by the ladies, and
| hooted at by the boys; we have named
| this collar the Bey of Tunis ! if"
"Look a-here, young man" broke in
the farmer, with determined tone of
voice, edo / look like the jayhawk of
Japan, or the high and mighty chopstick
of China, or any of them heather p
"Well, really, | can't say that you
do" replied the clerk, who was itching
for fresh attack.
81 thought not; nuther does my son
we're plain American citizens-John
Smith, and John Smith, junior; we
don't put on any fringe, and are down
on TURNER'S. Hev you got any number
fifteen paper collars, lined with sweat
leather and with stub-and-twist button
holes 2"
81 am sorry to say, sir, that we have
not, replied the clerk, and look OF
loathing began to break out on his coun-
tenance.
"Well, then, young man, we can't
decker" And the farmer went out with
out jamming his thumb in the door,
Albdnq Arq,s.