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After this memorable event, I went to the hatter’s, and the bootmaker’s, and the hosier’s, and felt rather like Mother Hubbard’s dog whose outfit required the services of so many trades.

The dressmakers and hosiers and other clothiers that once populated England’s redbrick towns have long departed.

“Leicester clothes the world” was the slogan when the city was full of hosiers and bootmakers; in 1936 it was named as the second-richest city in Europe.

At an early age, says Dr. Rogers, his parents removed to Glasgow, where, in his thirteenth year, he was apprenticed to a hosier.

But he has been found at last, in a wretched little hosier's at Portsmouth—ill and weak and pitifully poor.