playing-dress

Updated: May 8, 2025

You'll get him back Mum." "O but my dear good sir" I says clasping my hands and wringing them and clasping them again "he is such an uncommon child!" "Yes Mum" says the sergeant, "we mostly find that too Mum. The question is what his clothes were worth." "His clothes" I says "were not worth much sir for he had only got his playing-dress on, but the dear child! " "All right Mum" says the sergeant.

Charles Dickens - Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings