Neckerchiefed

Suffice it to say, that I plunged deeper and deeper into the Heliconian stream; sonnet following sonnet with such celerity, that long before a month was over my head, I was transformed from a sedate, white cravatted clerk, into a sighing, careless, open collared, black neckerchiefed, ballad-monger.

It is impossible not to smile at seeing them on a holiday in the dog-days, cumbered with an extraordinary superfluity of petticoats, and coifed and neckerchiefed up to the throat.

Reclining at his feet was the white-neckerchiefed individual addressed by the Queen of the Chase as “Ginger.”

The proprietors probably think that their good things can recommend themselves to their fair costumers; that a puff can speak for itself, and that ices are too pleasant to require the insinuating address of a white-neckerchiefed, ringletted youth for their disposal.

Chorion, the media content group which owns the rights to Noddy and other Enid Blyton characters, will announce this morning that the neckerchiefed boy has won a landmark deal in China.

Ten minutes into my hovering gig, my neckerchiefed bell ringer turned to me and said, “Mom, that guy just walked into the store with a WART.”