'You had better step into the marquee, I think, Sir,' said one very stout gentleman, whose body and legs looked like half a gigantic roll of flannel, elevated on a couple of inflated pillow-cases.
'You'll find it much pleasanter, Sir,' urged another stout gentleman, who strongly resembled the other half of the roll of flannel aforesaid.
As Peepy cried for me to take him to bed, I carried him upstairs, where the young woman with the
flannel bandage charged into the midst of the little family like a dragon and overturned them into cribs.
"How is it, O strangers," asked the old man solemnly, "that this fat man (pointing to Good, who was clad in nothing but boots and a flannel shirt, and had only half finished his shaving), whose body is clothed, and whose legs are bare, who grows hair on one side of his sickly face and not on the other, and who wears one shining and transparent eye-- how is it, I ask, that he has teeth which move of themselves, coming away from the jaws and returning of their own will?"
Henceforth you must exist in a flannel shirt, a pair of boots, and an eye-glass."
"I didn't bring anything " began Rose, but was interrupted by the Brats (otherwise Will and Geordie), who appeared bearing the big bundle, so much demoralised by its fall that a red
flannel tunic trailed out at one end and a little blue dressing-gown at the other, while the knobs proved to be a toilet-case, rubbers, and a silver mug.
'I should also,' observed the doctor, who had passed the foot-bath on the stairs, 'I should also,' said the doctor, in the voice of an oracle, 'put her feet in hot water, and wrap them up in
flannel. I should likewise,' said the doctor with increased solemnity, 'give her something light for supper--the wing of a roasted fowl now--'
He held out his hand to the gangway by which Montgomery stood talking to a massive grey-haired man in dirty-blue
flannels, who had apparently just come aboard.
To be sure, he became a Friend by Convincement as the Quakers say, and so I cannot imagine that he was altogether worldly; but he had an eye to the main chance: he founded the industry of making
flannels in the little Welsh town where he lived, and he seems to have grown richer, for his day and place, than any of us have since grown for ours.
But viewers were left tickled at the unusual trick as well as her encouraging commuters to wear 'batty riders' and whip out a
flannel to wipe away any droplets.
PS65, www.victoriassecret.com COTTON
FLANNEL STAR PRINT PYJAMAS: Made from soft brushed cotton
flannel, the star-print set will be a cosy comfort on nights in.
I Was Recently Sent a sample of a New Kind of
Flannel Shirt.
You will need: Enough hot water to fill a bowl, six drops of essential oil - a single oil or blend - a large bowl, a
flannel, towel or clingfilm.
NOTE: Fabrics in the quilt shown are from the Toscana
Flannel collection by Northcott Fabrics.
