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Updated: May 10, 2025
"I don't do such silly things now: I'm as broad across the shoulders as you are, and twice as strong on my pins, thanks to my gymnastics. Bet you a cent I'll be dressed first, though you have got the start," said Jack, knowing that Frank always had a protracted wrestle with his collar-buttons, which gave his adversary a great advantage over him. "Done!" answered Frank, and at it they went.
'Melia, tell him we don't want any suspenders or collar-buttons; we don't wear them." "Showy!" called Jane. "My sakes! it was the plainest thing, I ever saw at their house. If you could see some of their doings!" Eliza Marshall set back the candelabrum and transferred her attention to a Rock of Ages in Parian marble. "I believe things get dirtier here every year.
Mother Underhill is sure Ben has to go to a restaurant, that his stockings are never mended, his buttons always off. But patent buttons are invented, and collar-buttons that cannot be ironed off by the "washerwoman," supply a long-felt want. Ben is stout and comfortable-looking, and the same grave, affectionate fellow. The children seem to come up without much sickness or trouble.
Tell you what I'll do with you: I'll let you have this elegant solid gold rolled-plate watch-chain and jewel, this elegant, solid gold ring to git married with Hay? How about it? and these four collar-buttons for for twenty-five cents, or a quarter of a dollar." That boy never took that quarter out of his breeches pocket. It just jumped out of itself. But I see that you are getting the fidgets.
Your fingers come in contact with the fibres of the silk and the first thing you know the tie is soiled. This little clasp" and he casts a beam of affection upon it "saves your tie, it saves your collar, and it saves your patience." A note of yearning pathos comes into his agreeable voice, and he holds out a handful of the old-fashioned collar-buttons.
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