hat-and-bonnet

Updated: May 24, 2025

Was it for this I had fled from home and friends? To become a partner in the hat-and-bonnet business, with a dreadful old maid, who wore blue spectacles and curled her false hair. I shivered. "Poor darling!" said she, "the boy is cold," and she wrapped me up in a big plaid shawl of her own.

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor - The Blunders of a Bashful Man