Messrs. Cut & Comeagain, Merchant Tailors.

To Peter Proffit, Walking Advertiser, Drs.

JULY 10.—to promenade, as usual and customer brought home… $00 25

JULY 11.—To do do do 25

JULY 12.—To one lie, second class; damaged black cloth sold for invisible green……………………………………….. 25

JULY 13.—To one lie, first class, extra quality and size; recommended milled satinet as broadcloth…………………. 75

JULY 20.—To purchasing brand new paper shirt collar or dickey, to set off gray Petersham………………………………. 02

AUG. 15.—To wearing double-padded bobtail frock, (thermometer 106 in the shade)……………………………………… 25

AUG. 16.—Standing on one leg three hours, to show off new-style strapped pants at 12 1/2 cents per leg per hour…………. 37 1/2

AUG. 17.—To promenade, as usual, and large customer brought (fat man)…………………………………………….. 50

AUG. 18.—To do do (medium size)…………….. 25

AUG. 19.—To do do (small man and bad pay)……. 06

TOTAL [sic] $2 95 1/2

The item chiefly disputed in this bill was the very moderate charge of two pennies for the dickey. Upon my word of honor, this was not an unreasonable price for that dickey. 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 three Petershams. 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. But it is needless to say that I stood upon the principle of the thing. Business is business, and should be done in a business way. There was no system whatever in swindling me out of a penny—a clear fraud of fifty per cent—no method in any respect. I left at once the employment of Messrs. Cut & Comeagain, and set up in the Eye-Sore line by myself—one of the most lucrative, respectable, and independent of the ordinary occupations.