“TOMMY” SHOWS APTITUDE FOR JOURNALISM
“COME in!” said Peter Hope.
Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic barbers as “getting a little thin on the top, sir,” but arranged with economy, that everywhere is poverty's true helpmate. …

— Jerome K. Jerome
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