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"I have no costume. As I told you, I've not been singing lately." "We've got one that might fit a short blue silk skirt low neck and blue stockings. Slippers too, but they might be tight I forget the number." "I did wear threes. But I've done a great deal of walking. I wear a five now." Susan thrust out a foot and ankle, for she knew that despite the overshoe they were good to look at.
Vandover crawled back, half the way under the sink again, this time bringing out a rusty pan half full of some kind of congealed gravy that exhaled a choking, acrid odour; next it was an old stocking, and then an ink bottle, a broken rat-trap, a battered teapot lacking a nozzle, a piece of rubber hose, an old comb choked with a great handful of hair, a torn overshoe, newspapers, and a great quantity of other debris that had accumulated there during the occupancy of the previous tenant.
When she came close and looked in she beheld indistinct forms racing up and down to the figure of the dance, the silence of their footfalls arising from their being overshoe in "scroff" that is to say, the powdery residuum from the storage of peat and other products, the stirring of which by their turbulent feet created the nebulosity that involved the scene.
"Let me see," began the child wearily; "there was Rube and Ike, two I can't think of, and John and Jane." "You must not count John and Jane," interrupted the bard reprovingly; "they're dead, you know, so that doesn't make seven." "I wasn't counting them, but perhaps I added up wrongly," said the child; "and will you please move your overshoe off my neck?" "Pardon," said the old man.
'Probably he is barricading himself in from me! she thought with a smile, and throwing off her white dogskin cloak she tried to take off her cap, which had become entangled in her hair and in the woven kerchief she was wearing under it. But she really had stepped into the puddle at the door, and her left foot was wet up to the ankle and her overshoe full of water.
But a bird does not. He oars himself along the upper fields and rides on air. So does a bicyclist and balloonist. Some men have a sort of contempt for aeronauts and workers at flying machines. That feeling is a testimony to their depravity and groveling tendencies. Aeronautics and nautics are an effort toward angelhood. Men can walk water who are willing to take a boat for an overshoe.
Sweaters and woolen mufflers should also be part of the added equipment, for nothing makes for such misery as getting thoroughly chilled for lack of adequate outside clothing. A walk or a drive becomes then just an endurance test. We have one last warning. The mitten and overshoe theory may seem to you but a sad sign of approaching age and debility and so none of them for you.
When I saw that Latin man I knew that Mellinger, private secretary, had all the dances on his card taken. That was a big, squashy man, the colour of a rubber overshoe, and he had an eye like a head waiter's. "Mellinger explained, fluent, in the Castilian idioms, that his soul was disconcerted with joy at introducing to his respected friends America's greatest invention, the wonder of the age.
When the wood road led into a clearing in which there was a rough little house of slabs, the child stopped altogether, and, looking down, began nervously to draw lines in the snow with her overshoe. You see, something perfectly dreadful had happened in school that day.
With this arrangement one does not have good control of his ski and stands the chance of a chafe on the 'tendon Achillis. Owing to the last consideration many had decided to go with toe strap alone as we did in the Discovery. This brought into my mind the possibility of using the iron cross bar and snap heel strap of the Huitfeldt on a suitable overshoe.
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