A TAILOR BEING TAKEN BY SURPRISE,

But by an Oxonian, a learned member of Christ Church, is recorded in

the fact, that having, for near half a century, been accustomed to

walk with a favourite stick, the _ferule_ of which, at the bottom,

came off, he took it to his _tailor_ to have it repaired.

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