THE TAILOR'S REVENGE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 July 1901, Page 4

THE TAILOR'S REVENGE.

A London tailor recently transacted some legal business with a well-known attorney, and in due course had a bill delivered to him containing such a variety of unexpected charges that lie thought himself llceeed most unmercifully. The only satisfaction which occurred to him was to prevail on the lawyer to have a suit of clothes from him, for which he in his turn gave the following bill :

respects the charges made by the man of cloth are not much less grotesque than some of the items that figure in bills delivered by men of law to their clients.

£ s. To measuring and taking orders d. for suit of clothes 0 6 8 To warrant and instructions to my foreman for executing same 0 6 0 To going three times to the woollen drapers 0 10 0 To fees to the woollen draper... 4 4 To cutting out the cloth ... 0 6 0 8 To materials for working ... l l 0 To trying the suit 0 13 4 To alterations and amendments 1 8 0 To entering it in my daybook 0 10 G To posting it in my ledger ... 0 6 8 To engrossing the same ... 0 13 4 To writing to the button merchant 0 6 8 To removing the suit from my house to Gray's Inn ... ... 1 1 0 To removing it by certiorari from Gray's Inn to country house 1 6 0 To writing out a receipt with stamp 0 12 0 To filing the same 0 6 8 To service of the same ... ... 0 5 0 To ditto eight times more ... 2 0 0 £15 4 0 Of course the lawyer did not pay the tailor's bill as presented, hut in some