said the garter ' ` I 'm sure I have n't given you any encouragement ! ' ` When anyone is as beautiful as you , ' said the shirt-collar , ` is not that encouragement enough ? ' ` Go away , do n't come so close ! ' said the garter . ` You seem to be a gentleman ! ' ` So I am , and a very fine one too ! ' said the shirt-collar ; ' I possess a boot-jack and a hair-brush ! ' That was not true ; it was his master who owned these things ; but he was a terrible boaster . ` Do n't come so close , ' said the garter . ` I 'm not accustomed to such treatment ! ' ` What affectation ! ' said the shirt-collar . And then they were taken out of the wash-tub , starched , and hung on a chair in the sun to dry , and then laid on the ironing-board . Then came the glowing iron . ` Mistress widow ! ' said the shirt-collar , ` dear mistress widow ! I am becoming another man , all my creases are coming out ; you are burning a hole in me ! Ugh ! Stop , I implore you ! ' ` You rag ! '
said the iron , travelling proudly over the shirt-collar , for it thought it was a steam engine and ought XXXXX be at the station drawing trucks .
So as boaster boot-jack in ironing-board shirt-collar that to wash-tub