heir attire, and at this moment they were starting from the door
in different directions. "Perhaps you will tell me that that is not
true?"

"I will say nothing about it for the future," said Mr. Brown.

"It is not true," continued Robinson; "but it is a work of fiction,
in which I take leave to think that elegance and originality are
combined."

"We ought to do something special in shirts," said Jones, a few days
after this. "We could get a few dozen from Hodges, in King Street,
and call them Eureka."

"Couldn't we have a shirt of our own?" said Mr. Robinson. "Couldn't
you invent a shirt, Mr. Jones?" Jones, as Robinson looked him full
in the face, ran his fingers through his scented hair, and said that
he would consult his wife. Before the day was over, however, the
following notice was already in type:--

MANKIND IN A STATE OF BLISS!

BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON have sincere pleasure in
presenting to the Fashionable World their new KATAKAIRION
SHIRT, in which they have thoroughly overcome the
difficulties, hitherto found to be insurmountable, of
adjusting the bodies of the Nobility and Gentry to
an article which shall be at the same time elegant,
comfortable, lasting, and cheap.

B., J., and R.'s KATAKAIRION SHIRT, and their Katakairion
Shirt alone, is acknowledged to unite these qualities.

Six Shirts for 39_s._ 9_d._

The Katakairion Shirt is specially recommended to Officers
going to India and elsewhere, while it is at the same time
eminently adapted for the Home Consumption.

"I think I would have considered it a little more, before I committed
myself," said Jones.

"Ah, yes; you would have consulted your wife; as I have not got one,
I must depend on my own wits."

"And are not likely to have one either," said Jones.

"Young men, young men," said Mr. Brown, raising his hands
impressively, "if as Christians you cannot agree, at any rate you are
bound to do so as partners. What is it that the Psalmist says, 'Let
dogs delight, to bark and bite--.'"

The notice as to the Katakairion shirt was printed on that day, as
originally drawn out by Robinson, and very widely circulated on the
two or three following mornings. A brisk demand ensued, and it was
found that Hodges, the wholesale manufacturer, of King Street, was
able to supply the firm with an article which, when sold at 39_s._
6_d._, left a comfortable profit.

"I told you that we ought to do some