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Updated: June 12, 2025
Rising up into the air out of the muddy ground, without any visible support whatever, were a pair of feet—Winnie's feet, unmistakably, because of their copper toes and tagless shoestrings—and kicking frantically back and forth. "Only that and nothing more." "Why, where's the—rest of him?" said Joy, blankly.
"Young people have to be prudent, dear child." "How much money shall I have, Uncle?" Elizabeth asked coldly. He told her. "Not a fortune; but David needn't worry about your shoestrings." "Yes, I will," he broke in, with a laugh. "She'll have to go barefoot, if I can't get 'em for her!" Elizabeth exclaimed, with angry impatience, and Robert Ferguson, chuckling, struck him lightly on the shoulder.
We feel this even in the finest Greek work like the "Venus of Cnidos." In this matter Hawthorne certainly exposes his Puritanic education, and he also places too high a value on the carving of button-holes and shoestrings by Italian workmen. Such things are the fag-ends of statuary. His judgment, however, is clear and convincing in regard to the tinted Eves and Venuses of Gibson.
This fictitious price mark works straight into the hands of the jockers who purchase these needle cases by the gross for about two cents each and teach their road kids to dispose of them, at a huge profit. If needle cases can not be had, sticking plaster, aluminum thimbles, pencils, shoestrings and other such articles are given to the road kids to peddle.
By that time, Mona's health was pretty well broke up, her eyes was not as good as they used to be, an' she had to give up the sewin'. She fell in with the old woman who peddled shoestrings, and, by her advice, started in with her apple-stand. They'd been together ever since an' managed to earn a livin' between 'em.
In the window were jars of candy, red and white, gingerbread horses, shoestrings, oranges, lemons, and dolls strung along in a line, the largest in the middle and the smallest at each end; besides these there were tops, whistles, writing paper, pencils, scrap pictures, and a variety of other things, all jumbled up together.
"Why the shoestrings?" "You tie their ectoplasm together top and bottom and they're trapped in it. Like a burlap bag." The boys had been bringing up the rear of the little procession and the others had not heard the soft-spoken exchange. Rick was just as glad. Weak jokes somehow didn't fit.
Foolish Bessie, too, to make the moan she does for some of her relatives to be here for you, old chap, for I heard her say, 'Oh, if Neil were here. By Jove! if I'd had you by the nape of the neck, I'd have shaken you into shoestrings, for I know well what you are at saying soft speeches to Blanche as if that were not settled long ago.
After all, it had been like that for a brief period many years ago. Scotty moved to his side. "This is the oddest ghost-hunting expedition I've ever been on. No equipment but a flashlight. Not even an electronic spook spotter." Rick nodded agreement. "Too true. But any experienced ghost grabber knows that you can catch a sackful with only a flashlight and a pair of shoestrings."
"Perchance they may not be too small," she said, and in despite of her training and the whiteness of her soul two dimples made their appearance above the corners of her pretty mouth. MacLean knelt to remove the worn shoe, but found in the shoestrings an obstinate knot.
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