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TWO OF A TRADE.
1865.
Pedestrians! buy your pantaloons at sixteen shillings new;
But ere you measure miles in them, the Miles must measure you.
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Of course there must a breach between two breeches-makers be.
These two contending tailors, call them Mileses, if you please—
But Miles in the plural should be written Milites—
The curious fact which causes most their customers to wonder,
Though scarce ten yards apart, the two are Miles and Miles asunder.
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