THE THREE TAILORS.
The three Tueton tailors toiled together, turning trowsers, trimming tunics, talking tirelessly. Tall Ted Tupper told trite, trifling things that tickled the two tiny tailors till Trueman Tippet teasingly took the talker to task. ‘•Tut, tut Ted ! Tell truer tales than they.” “Tell tales thyself, Trueman. Tell thy Texas tiger tales.” “Twaddle, twaddle !” tittered the third tailor, Tom Torrey. Trueman’s touchy temper threatened trouble. “Tom, thy thoughtless tongue tempts trouble.” Tactfully Ted Tupper then turned the talk to taffeta trimming, thankful thus to terminate the tiff. Two teamsters tramping thitherto take tea turn ed the talk thoroughly. They told tales, they tied Ted’s terrier to the tea table, teaching tricks till the tailors tittered. Thus thoughtlessly the teamsters tormented the tiny terrier, till Tessa Trueman tearfully terminated the tricks; The tailors then teased Tessa till the terrier threatened to take teeth to them. The tailors then took their tea, the teamsters tranquilly tasting too. Tessa tidied the table, telling town topics. The terrier tiny tied thing, timidly twetdled the tailors to toss tit-bits. Thus the trouble tei minuted.
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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 188, 9 June 1903, Page 5
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