Tom addressed himself to the coffee, and prattled away while he worked himself into his shoes and his greatcoat, well warmed through--aPetersham coat with velvet collar, made tight after the abominable fashion of those days.

It was another affair altogether, a dark ride on the top of the Tally-ho, I can tell you, in a tightPetersham coat, and your feet dangling six inches from the floor.

-- To purchasing bran new paper shirt collar or dickey, to set off grayPetersham.....................................

It was one of the cleanest and prettiest little dickeys I ever saw; and I have good reason to believe that it effected the sale of threePetershams. The elder partner of the firm, however, would allow me only one penny of the charge, and took it upon himself to show in what manner four of the same sized conveniences could be got out of a sheet of foolscap.