REMARKABLE BOOTS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1098, 7 April 1880, Page 2

REMARKABLE BOOTS.

A traveller stopped at an supper and lodging, and, on retiring, put his boots outside his chamber-door to be cleaned. In the morning he found them as he had left them, "whereupon he rang the bell furiously. The landlord came, and having heard the guest’s complaint, he sent for “boots.* The boy. came—a tow-headed lout of 16 or 1 1 years, in corduroys and smockfrock. ■“ Boy,” demanded Boniface,

terribly, '' why didn’t you clean this gentleman’s boots this morning when you cleaned the others V’ *' Boots, zur ?” drawled the lout. '* Whar be they V’ “ There they stand—right where I left them,” said the guest. The boy looked down at the boots, then bent and lifted one of them into the light of a distant window. It was certainly an exceptional boot, really a monstrosity. “Wa-a-1,” grunted the clown, looking up with a dubious light struggling upon his grimy visage, “ come ter see ’em in ter loit und ’ey be summat loik boots; but bless and save us, I could ’a swor’d in ter tim taybreak, ’at ’ey were a pa’r o black leather portmantles.”