Gloves and their manufacture [microform]

E. B. Cooke & Co

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-^^H iv .^ .•^1 ^ iv . P,V AND THEIR MANUFACTURE, .n1^ ^ 262 St. dames Stf'cet, ^ - n K. 15. Cooke cV- Co. fHT^' ••• •»a (d Cfuj^f^ THEIR MANUFACTURE.AND CLOVESTOREPARIS KID t. '''IIIH 'fn'''IMPORTER OF^^O—^^^OVELTIES^ JVIATERIALS FOR PRESSES, - - - -- -MILLINERS MANTLES, TRIMMmcSS, Etc. IJi RUU iBHRJiOH^S A SPECIAliTV. «-5K- 4^LATEST STYLES -JK— FROM LONDON, PARIS AND NEW YORK. ESTIMATES GIVEN. -3^^:- SOIM AGENTS TN CANADA FOR w.m.i. ^^mmmT HIGHLY RECOMENDED FOR STYLE, COMFORT & DURABILITY. PERFECT FIT AND SHAPE. The parties interested appeared in court, when one of them threw down his glove, which the other imme- diately picked up and carried off on the point of his sword. The day of fighting was then appointed, 1)ut the Queen, by personal interference, succeeded in ad- justing the affair without bloodshed. A curious story is told of a gentleman who went into a glove store in Bristol pair drivingto purchase a of gloves. Selecting pair which thought likely to suita he him, he asked and granted permission try themwas to on. He tried them on, bought and paid for them, and then asked the tradesman whether he had ever had com- plaint made to him of the loss of a ring in his shop; the fact being that the little finger of the buyer's left hand had now upon it such a ring, which it had unwittingly withdrawn from the recesses of the glove, and which, there formern the foothills of the Eastern slojies of the mightv Alps bordering on I'rance.

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• Langue: English
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