THE OLD GAME.
A man in want of a pair of boots, without the money to pay for them, ordered a fashionable shoemaker to send them to a certain hotel at a certain hour. Then he went to another shoemaker and ordered another pair to be delivered half an hour later. At the appointed time the first shoemaker, arrived. The man, complaining that the left boot was too tight, sent the shoemaker back with it to stretch it. In a short time the second shoemaker appeared, The right boot of that pair needed stretching, and went back to the shop. Shortly after two shoemakers met at the room in the hotel with a right boot and a left boot under their respective arms, An exchange of views upon the subject led to the discovery that their customer bad "skipped," «nd had danced "the grand right and left " out of sight and knowledge. Two sboe»making establishments now exhibit a single boot in their show eases as a specimen of the work done inside.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4484, 19 May 1883, Page 3
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172THE OLD GAME. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4484, 19 May 1883, Page 3
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