'My next goddam coat,' he said, 'will be a wooden coat'. . . . Now he was being measured for his wooden coat,
Hanging was indeed the popular remedy for all criminal disorders. The legislator found patients for it, the judge prescribed it, and the Ketch administered it with the same callous and gallows indifference.
Another modification of the Invention which may be applied in certain cases, that is to say, when it is required to imitate the skins of animals having wavy or frizzled hair, such as those known under the name of otter's or astracan fur, is as follows; but in this case I would observe, it is preferable to use, instead of wool properly so called, in the manufacture of these fulled stuffs, alpaca, cashmere, gingerline, or other similar wools which have naturally wavy hairs, contrary to wool which is smoother.
