INJURED INNOCENCE.
There is an old story that a dealer in ready-made clothing was once zealously endeavoring to persuade a customer that a coat fitted him like the paper on the wall—that its cut' was the perfection of fashionable elegance, and its cloth the best product of foreign looms. The customer, smiling a suspicious odour, put his nose to' the garment, and exclaimed: " I can't wear this coat! It smells ao dreadfully!," "My friend," replied the dealer, with the winning eagerness of injured innocence, "it is not the coat that smells—it is me."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 935, 26 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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93INJURED INNOCENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 935, 26 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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