“I am ready,” said the coat, “to tell all I know of myself, and I shall not keep you long, I trust. My friend the baize gown and I had the same origin on the back of a sheep, only I was of a nicer texture, and had, from my earliest days, a more refined character; and, of course, was used for higher purposes. Major Sword there may know per-haps that I had as much to do with making the major of Cadets as he had, only I did not make people run when they looked at me, as he says he did.