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Show Why We Sa "It Takes Nine Tailors to Make a Man" (C& T'NE tailors make a man," we J say, borrowing the wit of olden days, and the tailors, in self-defense, self-defense, tell a good story of the origin of this joke at their expense. They say that a poor boy in London, on the verge of starvation, went to a prosperous tailor who employed nine workmen. He was taken into the workshop, work-shop, where each of the nine men helped to teach him part of his trade. - Thanks to their kindness he became a first-rate hand, set up in business for himself, employed many workpeople, aud gained great wealth, and rode in his own coach, on which he painted a Latin motto, meaning, "Nine tailors made me a man," meaning that the good man owed his success to the nine kind-hearted workmen. work-men. The motto was read as "Nine tailors tail-ors make a man." There is another version of the same story. The same number of tailors ap-pear, ap-pear, but this time do not teach the boy bis trade, but give him money, with which he starts a fruit barrow, and works his way to riches, the carriage, and te When a man died the church bM nine times; when a woman died it tolled six times. The bell which was called a teller, and so U was that "nine tellers mark a .. word "teller" came to be ' "tailor"; tbe work "ma' "make"; and there is tbe little Jjou- a man in merry mood tries on still. That is the explana''00 at scholars have arrived. Jt One other joke, a t helped to turn a jest against the Canting, the statesman, it liament that three tondon tailor. , In Tooley Street, Southward P a petition to the House of Conio ginning, "We, the people ot ., and the story of the Three i Tooley Street lias never been . When pompous men claim . too nity, or make great show of tne .. ance, we look and laugh, the Three Tailors who thought the people of England. |