WEARING A NEW BOOT.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1150, 13 February 1874, Page 4

WEARING A NEW BOOT.

[danburt NEwk] It is a little singular how well a pair of boots can be made to fit at the store. You mny not be able to get your foot only part way d6wn the leg at the first trial, but that is because your stocking is sweaty, or your haven't started right and the shoemaker suggests that you start again and stand up to it, and he throws in a little powder from a pepperbox to aid you. And so you stand up, and pound down your foot, and partly (rip yourself up, and your eyes stick out in an unpleasant manner, and every vein in your body appears to be on the point of bursting, and all the while that dealer stands around and eyes that

operation as intently as if the whole affair was perfectly new and novel to him. Wheu your foot has finally struck bottom, there is a faint impression on your mind that you have stepped into an open stove, but he removes it by solemnly observing that he never saw a boot fit quite as good as that. You may suggest that your toe presses too hard against the front, or that some of the bones in the side of the foot are too much smashed, but he says this is always the way with a new boot, and that the trouble will entirely disappear in a few days. Then you take the old pair under your arm, and start for home as animated as a relic of 1812, all the while feeling that the world will not look bright and happy to you again until you have brained that shoemaker. Tou limp down town the next day, and smile all the while with vour mouth, while your eyes look as if you were walking over an oyster bed barefoot. When no one is looking you kick against a post, or some other obstruction, and show a fondness for stopping and resting against something that will sustain your weight. When you'get home at night you go for those old boots with an eagerness that cannot be described, and the remarks that you make upon learning that your wife has disposed of them to a widow woman in the suburbs are calculated to immediately depopulate the earth of women and shoemakers generally. »