downtown walk two blocks pay ten cents and ride right into the city We do it all the time And Casper and I have spent a lot of time downtown at Sven's Fair Price Store and the Hairsprinkle Hot Dog and other places But I had never bothered to go into Chauncey’s Big Small Short Tall before That's the first place Casper wanted to go that fateful
THE SUIT Ire you boys selling candy bars for your GottDangled school No more candy bars Get the Helchfitz out of here I was ready to get the Helchfitz out of the store but Casper didn't budge Don't worry he whispered When you've got four hundred dollars to spend you get treated differently Are you Chauncey he asked the angry man No Where is Chauncey Dead Oh I'm sorry said Casper He died in 1908 I'm his brother Red If Chauncey had died over a hundred years ago I didn't have any idea how old Red was Nor was there anything red about him But it didn't seem smart to ask personal questions'd like a suit said Casper Go to the GottDangled Walmart like everybody else We don't have a kids section I don't want a kids suit Kids suits make you look stupid I
want a man about town suit t for a short man about town And I've got cash Red pulled out a ribbon and lunged at Casper I thought he was attacking him But Casper stood perfectly still while Red held the ribbon around his stomach across his shoulders from his armpit to his wrist from his knee to his ankle from his nose to his belly button and on and on He never wrote anything down and he didn't seem to be paying attention to the measurements he was taking because he was rattling off questions like a bag of microwave popcorn Amazingly Casper answered every question in about a microsecond Double or single breasted Single Worsted Yes Belt or suspenders Suspenders Button fly Or zipper Button Pinstripe or herringbone Herringbone D
CHAUNCEY S I got bored and looked around Mostly it was just racks and racks of suits some really really small and some really really really big I've never seen anyone in Hairsprinkle big enough to
