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They had all forgotten he had said anything about theatre, and other topics left their impatient minds, while the Country Mouse paid the bill and asked to be guided to the Opera-house. "This man here will look out for your blackin' and truck, and let yu' have it in the morning." They were very late.
I haven't forgot what you and your uncle said to me, and I'm tryin' to grow up 'spectable. I haven't been to Tony Pastor's, or the Old Bowery, for ever so long. I'd rather save up my money to support me in my old age. When my hair gets gray, I'm goin' to knock off blackin' boots, and go into some light, genteel employment, such as keepin' an apple-stand, or disseminatin' pea-nuts among the people.
Why, who ever saw a respectable shiner goin' about with a three-legged stool for a blackin' box? It ain't the thing. The rig'lars chaffs me fit to throw it at their 'eads, they does only there's too many on 'em, an' I've got to dror it mild. A box I must have, or a feller's ockypation's gone. Look ye here! One bob, one tanner, and a joey!
He would have shined them himself, as he always did at home, but on a former occasion when he asked for the "blackin' kit," the butler's shocked and pained expression led to questions and consequent enlightenment. He was ready by a quarter after ten, but when his niece knocked at his door she bore a message which surprised and troubled him. "Mrs.
An' what you think you gwine to do when you git to 'em?" "Wuck 'roun de camp," replied Jeems Henry with some vagueness. "Doin' what?" was the relentless query. "Blackin' de gent'men's boots an' an' gittin' paid fer it," Jeems Henry stammered in reply. "It's better'n being a slave, Unc' Billy," he added as he saw the sneer of contempt on the faithful old man's face.
"Well," said Dick, "I guess I'll be as much as sixty before I know everything." "Yes; as old as that, probably," said Fosdick, laughing. "Anyway, you know too much to be blackin' boots. Leave that to ignorant chaps like me." "You won't be ignorant long, Dick." "You'd ought to get into some office or countin'-room." "I wish I could," said Fosdick, earnestly.
"If I had ten dollars ahead," he said one day, "I'd give up blackin' boots." "What else would you do?" "I'd be a telegraph boy. That's more respectable than blackin' boots, and it 'ould be cleaner." "That is true. Do you need money to join?" "I would get paid once in two weeks, and I'd have to live till I got my first salary." "I guess I can see you through, Mike."
He had himself of course, learned all by the ear, but could hardly have been serious in requesting Malcolm to follow him through such a succession of tortuous mazes. "I haena a memory up to that, daddy; but I s' get a hand o' Mr Graham's flute music, and maybe that'll help me a bit. Wadna ye be takin' hame Meg Partan's blackin' 'at ye promised her?" "Surely, my son.
Well, an' what does the man do after an interval o' five minutes, but dress hisself up in black an' call 'er names for 'avin' married his uncle? This was too much for the back seats, an' some o' them told 'im to go 'ome an' boil 'is 'ead. But it 'ad no effect; for he only got worse, till he ended up by blackin' 'is face an' smotherin' 'er with a pillow for something quite different.
I ax your honor's pardon for bein' troublesome, but I hard tell from the long sailor, iv a place they call Japan, in them furrin parts, and is it there, your honor?" "Quite true, Paddy." "And I suppose it's there the blackin' comes from." "No, Paddy, you are out there."
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