PEDESTRIANS! buy your pantaloons at sixteen shillings new; But ere you measure miles in them, the Miles must measure you. Since two of one trade never yet were able to agree, Of course there must a breach between two breeches-makers be. These two contending tailors, call them Mileses, if you please— But @3Miles@1 in the plural should be written @3Milites@1— The curious fact which causes most their customers to wonder, Though scarce ten yards apart, the two are Miles and Miles asunder. |