'Every time my birthday came,' old Mathers said, 'I was presented with another little gown of the same identical quality except that it was put on over the other one and not in place of it. You may appreciate the extreme delicacy and fineness of the material when I tell you that even at five years old with five of these gowns together on me, I still appeared to be naked. It was, however, an unusual yellowish sort of nakedness. Of course there was no objection to wearing other clothes over the gown. I usually wore an overcoat. But every year I got a new gown.'
'Where did you get them?' I asked.
'From the police. They were brought to my own home until I was big enough to call to the barracks for them.'
'And how does all this enable you to predict your span of life?'
'I will tell you. No matter what your colour is, it will be represented faithfully in your birth-gown. With each year and each gown, the colour will get deeper and more pronounced. In my own case I had attained a bright full-blown yellow at fifteen although the colour was so light at birth as to be imperceptible. I am now nearing seventy and the colour is a light brown. As my gowns come to me through the years ahead, the colour will deepen to dark brown, then a dull mahogany and from that ultimately to that very dark sort of brownness one associates usually with stout.'
'Yes?'
'In a word the colour gradually deepens gown by gown and year by year until it appears to be black. Finally a day will come when the addition of one further gown will actually achieve real and full blackness. On that day I will die.'
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I dunno. No matter how many I add, the dude is still 100% white.
'Every time my birthday came,' old Mathers said, 'I was presented with another little gown of the same identical quality except that it was put on over the other one and not in place of it. You may appreciate the extreme delicacy and fineness of the material when I tell you that even at five years old with five of these gowns together on me, I still appeared to be naked. It was, however, an unusual yellowish sort of nakedness. Of course there was no objection to wearing other clothes over the gown. I usually wore an overcoat. But every year I got a new gown.'
'Where did you get them?' I asked.
'From the police. They were brought to my own home until I was big enough to call to the barracks for them.'
'And how does all this enable you to predict your span of life?'
'I will tell you. No matter what your colour is, it will be represented faithfully in your birth-gown. With each year and each gown, the colour will get deeper and more pronounced. In my own case I had attained a bright full-blown yellow at fifteen although the colour was so light at birth as to be imperceptible. I am now nearing seventy and the colour is a light brown. As my gowns come to me through the years ahead, the colour will deepen to dark brown, then a dull mahogany and from that ultimately to that very dark sort of brownness one associates usually with stout.'
'Yes?'
'In a word the colour gradually deepens gown by gown and year by year until it appears to be black. Finally a day will come when the addition of one further gown will actually achieve real and full blackness. On that day I will die.'
I think we need more hair options, S_McG.
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And what use is a wig without a wide range of moustache options?
And a sombrero!
Such things are just inappropriate.
A bandolier? Cigar? A steenkin' badge?
Sorry, grant didn't come through and we can only afford inflatable afros.
Luchador masks!!
ONE luchador mask. You haven't finished supper.
Too late! Luchador masks are now up at Riddled!
Now the luchador jar is EMPTY.
Izzat Tiny Tim's profile on the cover in the video?
I always thought so, but could his nose really have been like that?
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