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To get a congress-gaiter off the foot without using the hands is quite easy; but how to get one on again, those members not being employed to do it, would puzzle most people. It is not difficult to do, however, if a cord has been attached to the strap of the gaiter and tied to the leg above the calf. The cord should be slack, and that will admit of the gaiter coming off.
"Oh, poorly as usual, thank you ma'am," he said. "I should think that country life would be much better for her." "She's even worse in the country." "There was a sheet of an excellent religious paper wrapped about that gaiter. You might give it to her to read." "Thank you, ma'am, I will, though she takes more comfort reading the dream-book than anything." "Burn the dream-book.
Once I sat down and calculated how much my working time would be lengthened by wearing string ties and gaiter shoes, and I'll tell you it amounts to a whole lot, to say nothing of the strain on one's temper and conscience saved by not having to lace up shoes in a berth. "Well, I struck Kearney late one Saturday night looking more or less like a young preacher.
Marshal Leboeuf lightly declared that "everything was ready, more than ready, and not a gaiter button missing," and it was with a light-hearted confidence that the Emperor Napoleon declared war against Prussia, the insensate multitude filling Paris with their futile war cry of "On to Berlin."
Madame de Fleury's royal sway over the empire of "chiffons" was soon as thoroughly established in Washington as it had been in Paris. Dress, or head-dress, bodice, bonnet, mantle, gaiter, glove, worn by her, multiplied itself in important imitations, and every feminine chrysalis sent forth its ballroom butterfly in a livery to match.
The long hose were likewise guarded by a species of gaiter of the same strong stuff.
Massena was a thin, sour little fellow, and after his hunting accident he had only one eye, but when it looked out from under his cocked hat there was not much upon a field of battle which escaped it. He could stand in front of a battalion, and with a single sweep tell you if a buckle or a gaiter button were out of place.
"How about that brace that flew right down the line? You must have seen 'em coming all the way. You didn't even try a shot at them, man!" Dermott, who was fastening up his gaiter, answered rather listlessly "Sorry! It was a misfire, I think." "What?" cried the outraged Admiral. "A misfire? Both barrels of both guns?" I did not hear the answer to this. I was looking at Dolly.
Dick followed with a single gaiter. In another minute they were safe on the opposite bank. The elder lady gave way to tears; Maria laughed hysterically; Dick mingled a bass oath with the now audible surf; the elder gentleman, whose florid face the salt water had bleached, and whose dignity seemed to have been washed away, accounted for both by saying he thought it was a quicksand.
In London, twenty or thirty-years ago are old times; in Paris ten years, or five; in Weatherbury three or four score years were included in the mere present, and nothing less than a century set a mark on its face or tone. Five decades hardly modified the cut of a gaiter, the embroidery of a smock-frock, by the breadth of a hair. Ten generations failed to alter the turn of a single phrase.
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