tail-or

Updated: May 15, 2025

Shiner went on singing "'The miller was drown'd in his pond, The weaver was hung in his yarn, And the d ran away with the little tail-or, With the broadcloth under his arm." "That's a terrible crippled rhyme, if that's your rhyme!" said Dick, with a grain of superciliousness in his tone. "It's no use your complaining to me about the rhyme!" said Mr. Shiner.

Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school