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Updated: May 12, 2025
And some people said that if Timothy Turtle ever grabbed a boy by his great-toe, when he was in swimming, that youngster would limp for many a day thereafter. But the boys went in swimming just the same. Black Creek would have had to be alive with turtles to keep them out of it on a hot summer's day.
But the Pool of Siloam did not work pleasantly in the case of the robust general, who was attacked after his second dip with a smart fit of the gout in his left great-toe, where it went on charmingly, without any flickering upward, quite stationary and natural for three weeks. About the end of which time the period of the annual ball given by the officers of the Royal Irish Artillery arrived.
Dom Manuel asked the magician, privately. "I confess he very often has that appearance." "Then why do you make him my overlord?" "I have my reasons, you may depend upon it, and if I do not talk about them you may be sure that for this reticence also I have my reasons." "But is this Horvendile, then, one of the Léshy? Is he the Horvendile whose great-toe is the morning star?"
"I never held with Origen," replied the monk; "and besides, it hurt my great-toe confoundedly." "None the less," observes Jurgen, "it does not behoove God-fearing persons to speak with disrespect of the divinely appointed Prince of Darkness. To your further confusion, consider this monarch's industry! day and night you may detect him toiling at the task Heaven set him.
If you chance to visit the Chief Protector of Aborigines on board his yacht the MELBIDIR, one of the first to greet you, be you an old acquaintance or a stranger, may be "Jimmy," the cook. He is a little brown man who wears blue shoes, which are also socks, and a perpetual smile. The shoes, which are of some soft material, have a separate compartment for the great-toe, and hook down the heel.
Prince Fred, not yet wedded elsewhere, is doing French madrigals in Leicester House; tending forwards the "West Wickham" set of Politicians, the Pitt-Lyttelton set; stands ill with Father and Mother, and will not come to much. August the Dilapidated-Strong is deep in Polish troubles, in Anti-Kaiser politics, in drinking-bouts; his great-toe never mended, never will mend.
Beautiful little fleshy, Venus-de'-Medici feet and toes no undercutting to the right foot, the left having the great-toe properly laid over the second, according to the ordinances of schools and shoes, and a well-developed academic and operatic calf and leg. Again charming, of course. But only according to Mr. Gibson or Mr. Power not according to Giovanni.
Her right thumb tied to her left great-toe, and vice versa, she was thrown into the water. If she floated, she was a witch; if she sank and was drowned, she was lucky. This trial, as old as the days of Pliny the Elder, was gone out of fashion, the author of De Lamiis assures us, in his day, everywhere but in Westphalia.
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