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"You are sordid this morning," reproved Salemina; "it would be better if you remembered Limerick by the famous siege, and Balbriggan as the place where King William encamped with his army after the battle of the Boyne."
"We can only afford to wear the cheaper sorts," I said; "and a great many of us can't buy any at all. I don't think you need bother about the Irish trade." "Still, it is substantial. Now, a hostile tariff or a bounty on Balbriggan " "You'll have to establish a factory in Ireland," I said, "and dodge the tariff. Tipperary now.
Fifteen hundred dozen of Balbriggan, usual price, 1s. 6d.; sold by B., J., and R. for 10½d. It may not, perhaps, be necessary to continue the whole list here; but as it was read aloud to Mr. Brown, he sat aghast with astonishment. "George!" said he, at last, "I don't like it. It makes me quite afeard. It does indeed."
"There is no man, to my thinking, so false," continued Robinson, "as he who in trade professes to be true. He deceives, or endeavours to do so. I do not. No one will believe that we have fifteen hundred dozen of Balbriggan." "Nobody will," said Mr. Brown. "But yet that statement will have its effect. It will produce custom, and bring grist to our mill without any dishonesty on our part.
Two undershirts, balbriggan or woollen. Three pairs of woollen socks. Two linen handkerchiefs, large enough, if needed, to tie around the throat and protect the back of the neck. One pair of pajamas, woollen, not linen. One housewife. Two briarwood pipes. Six bags of smoking tobacco; Durham or Seal of North Carolina pack easily. One pad of writing paper. One fountain pen, self-filling.
There were men in complete Moro costume, handsome and picturesque; others ruining their appearance by the addition of a hideous balbriggan undershirt, sandwiched between tight trousers with innumerable buttons and a brilliantly coloured turban; while still others, in little else than a fez and breech-clout, seemed not a whit abashed.
He found and withdrew his hat from behind a newspaper-rack and cast a quick glance toward the form of his father, whose nether half, ending in a pair of carpet slippers dangling free from his balbriggan heels, protruded from the barricade of newspaper. "That's right, just get the old man started on me, ma, too.
Walter Gresham occupy residence lots worth $1,000 each, but that you inhabit a $1,500 cottage and he a $150,000 mansion; and suppose that your income is $2,000 a year while his is $20,000: Do you think there is any necessity for tearing your balbriggan undershirt because not compelled to put up as much for the maintenance of government as your wealthy neighbor?
I received you letter and the pretty Balbriggan stockings, for which I thank you very much, quite safely. I have not been able to put pen to paper till now, and even now do not know whether I can do more than just tell you that we have heard nothing further whatever from my brother.
Afghanistan, 62. Agricultural gravestones, 32, 33, 34. "Amazon," privateer ship, 81. America, 58. Anglo-Saxon Churches, 38. Artizaus' gravestones, 31. Ashford, 23. Assyrian tomb, 104. Atkinson, G. M., on "Ogams." 97. Balbriggan, 79. Bangor, Ireland, 80, 81. Barking, 43. Barnes, 32. Barnet, 46, 76. Barra, 101, 102. Bath, 106. Beckenham, 33. Belfast, 78. Belgium, 91. Benenden, 16. Bermondsey, 29.
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