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Updated: September 18, 2025
The Deer hunt had been made still more real by having the "Deer-boy" wear a pair of sandals made from old boots; on the sole of each they put two lines of hobnails in V shape, pointing forward. These made hooflike marks wherever the Deer went.
All, however, are highest points, and, head and shoulders above the trees, look abroad over the land. When Bennington came to one of these dikes he was forced to pick his way carefully in a detour around its base. Between times he found hobnails much inclined to click against unforeseen stones. The broken twig came to possess other than literary importance.
"But we can shoot that away too," said Dick hopefully. "We can't shoot down all the forests on the mountain. He must have heavy hobnails, or, like the mountaineers, he has drawn thick yarn socks over his boots, else he couldn't scoot about on the ice the way he does." "Ah, there goes his rifle, behind the clump of bushes to the right of the one that we shot away!"
"But, Eve dear, never have we discovered in any dead and flattened leaf the imprint of hobnails, let alone the imprint of a human foot." "Suppose, whoever made that path, had pulled over his shoes a heavy woolen sock." He nodded. "I feel, somehow, that the Hun flattened out those leaves," she went on.
So we look at our boots with a sense that our hobnails do not match with the white Japanese matting that covers the floor; and we sit on the edge of our chairs just as other rustics would do at home. Our hats removed, the results of Old Colonial's tonsorial operations are made fully apparent. Our hostess surveys us with a puzzled air.
The exaltation of the dawn had left her, and she quickened her steps, wondering uneasily what her skin looked like unaided in this dazzling light. She slipped noiselessly into the house by the front door, which she barred behind her; the clatter of hobnails from the little yard told that Billy was already about his business, but behind Mrs. Penticost's door all was quiet.
He kicked aside a dozen pairs of boots with the remark that "There's nothing there fit for this country. Rough-hide and hobnails is what you want." Certain tweed suits that the fancy of our London tailor had invested with the title "New Zealand Specialities" were, said our friend, only suitable for colonists who intended to settle on the top of the Southern Alps.
What were his hobnails that they should mar the pavement of that delicate Temple? Yet, for that he betrayed one secret rightly heard there, will I pardon his sacrilege. 'A dandy, he cried through the mask of Teufelsdroeck, 'is a clothes-wearing man, a man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.
The word "trampling" was understood by Evelyn as an allusion to the hobnails which Sister Mary John wore in the garden. Veronica often dropped a rude word, which seemed ruder than it was owing to the refinement and distinction of her face and her voice.
I shall have to fill the soles of them full of hobnails presently. They belong to the best ploughman in the parish John Turnbull. Don't you think it's an honour to mend boots for a man who makes the best bed for the corn to die in?" "I thought it was to grow in," said Willie. "All the same," returned Hector. "When it dies it grows and not till then, as you will read in the New Testament.
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