` Hulloa ! ' said the shirt-collar , ` never before have I seen anything so slim and delicate , so elegant and pretty ! May I be permitted to ask your name ? ' ' I sha n't tell you , ' said the garter . ` Where is the place of your abode ? ' asked the shirt-collar . But the garter was of a bashful disposition , and did not think it proper to answer . ` Perhaps you are a girdle ? ' said the shirt-collar , ` an under girdle ? for I see that you are for use as well as for ornament , my pretty miss ! ' ` You ought not to speak to me ! ' 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 XXXXX such treatment ! '
So as boaster boot-jack for of shirt-collar that to under