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Updated: May 11, 2025
It took ten minutes to get Stanley into them, into the little blue linen knickers he had never worn before, and into his tight little white jersey; and then there was Dossie and her wonderful rig-out, the clean, white frock and the serge jacket of turquoise blue and the tiny mushroom hat with the white ribbon.
Now, old Mackwayte stood at her elbow in his rig-out as an old London bus-driver in the identical, characteristic clothes which he had worn for this turn for the past 25 years. He was far too old a hand to show any nervousness he might feel at the ordeal before him. He was chatting in undertones in his gentle, confidential way to the stage manager.
"And seein' as he's got that bran-new rig-out o' tools," said another, "I'll give a hundred and fifty and the drinks. I've been," he added apologetically, "wantin' sunthin' like this a long time."
"I couldn't venture here again in the old suit; it had been seen, you said," returned Richard. "I bought this rig-out yesterday, second-hand. Two pounds for the lot I think they shaved me." "Ringlets and all?" laughed Mr. Carlyle. "It's the old hair oiled and curled," cried Dick. "The barber charged a shilling for doing it, and cut my hair into the bargain.
I assumed fancy dress. I secured a big top hat, a pair of trousers much too baggy and big for me, a swallow-tail coat with tails formed of white and red strips a regular Uncle Sam's costume had a big flaming bow about twelve inches in width and a ridiculous monocle. I think my rig-out transformed me into a hybrid of Brother Jonathan, Charlie Chaplin and an English dude.
"Clothes seem to be pretty cheap here," said Frank. "Yes, but Baxter Street is the cheapest place." "Is it?" "Yes. Johnny Nolan got a whole rig-out there last week, for a dollar, coat, cap, vest, pants, and shoes. They was very good measure, too, like my best clothes that I took off to oblige you." "I shall know where to come for clothes next time," said Frank, laughing.
"Hist, Dan!" said I, "give me a man's rig-out a jersey and some breeches and a cap quick," and, while the old fellow stared and whistled softly, I helped to ransack his box; and in a trice I had dressed myself, putting my pistols, my papers, and my money in my new clothes; but leaving everything else in a heap on the floor.
"No, sir," replied the lad; but, evidently did not anticipate anything very dreadful, for he grinned all over his face. "I carn't!" "I'm going to give you a new rig-out," went on the other. "Do you know what that is, eh?" "No, sir," again answered Dick, thinking though that the Captain perhaps meant something to eat. "I dunno." "Well, come in here and you shall see."
"I should say " he said, "yes, sir, I should say that was a real stylish rig-out. Only thing is, that girl is consider'ble less fleshy than Emily. This one looks to me as if she was breakin' in two amidships. Still, I s'pose likely the duds don't come ready made, so they could be let out some, to fit. What's the price of a suit like that, Whit?"
As the captain was speaking the parlour door opened and the mate of the barque, a tall, red-bearded sailor, stepped in. He had obtained a complete rig-out from some kind-hearted fisherman, and looked in his comfortable jersey and well-greased seaboots a very favourable specimen of a shipwrecked mariner.
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