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"Wife said she was inquirin' about the circus, but she wanted to know first if they couldn't oblige her with a few trinkets o' mournin', seein' as how she 'd got to pay a mournin' visit. Wife thought 't was a bosom-pin, or somethin' like that, but turned out she wanted the skirt of a dress; 'most anything would do, she said."
"But my mamma never 'lows me to wear window curtains, and I sha'n't be a tolly-blow 'thout I can wear my white dress with red spots, and a big bosom-pin in!" "And a shaker," suggested one of the girls. "I didn't know before that Susy Parlin had such a bad sister." This was too much. Dotty's head was on fire.
Probably he uses it to eat his dinner with; perhaps also as a weapon. A young sailor, with an anchor handsomely traced on the back of his hand a foul anchor and perhaps other naval insignia on his wrists and breast. He wears a sky-blue silk short jacket, with velvet collar a bosom-pin, etc. His hair is brown without a single visible gray hair in it; and he would seem not much above fifty.
She declined to remove her handkerchief from her right hand, and she returned the "ring and bosom-pin" to her disconsolate admirer, while, not many months after, Mallett's rival led Lucretia to the altar.
Flush, the Flat champion at poker, came in late in the afternoon, with a huge watch-chain, and an overpowering bosom-pin, and his horrid fingers sported at least one seal-ring each. Several stove-pipe hats were visible in camp, and even a pair of gloves were reported in the pocket of a miner.
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