text:  In a double-countered shop (for the appliances for the inward creature were sold at one side and those for the outward man at another) in one of the handsomest houses of the town--where a double-story slated roof and a sign-board with a red splash in the middle and the characters "General Hutchinson " underneath was the standard of excellence--on the evening in question stood Curly Cahill [22] spirit retailer and according to the signboard just quoted "dealer in soft goods butter leather iron eggs and tobacco " busily engaged in serving a customer