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The name of Leather-Twigg having proved, at an early date in his career, too great a mouthful for Wrykyn, he was known to his friends and acquaintances by the euphonious title of Shoeblossom. The charm about the genial Shoeblossom was that you could never tell what he was going to do next.
He seized the frying-pan. He gave it one twirl in the air. Then, before any one could stop him, he had turned it upside down over the fire. As has been already remarked, you could never predict exactly what James Rupert Leather-Twigg would be up to next. When anything goes out of the frying-pan into the fire, it is usually productive of interesting by-products. The maxim applies to fat.
" disgraceful ... scandalous ... get up, Leather-Twigg ... not to be trusted ... babies ... three hundred lines, Leather-Twigg ... abominable ... surprised ... ought to be ashamed of yourselves ... double, Leather-Twigg ... not fit to have studies ... atrocious ... "
But there were certain inquiring minds who liked to ferret about in odd corners. Among these was one Leather-Twigg, of Seymour's, better known in criminal circles as Shoeblossom. Shoeblossom was a curious mixture of the Energetic Ragger and the Quiet Student.
Barry regarded him through having played with him in important matches as a good sort of fellow who had always behaved decently to him. Leather-Twigg, on the other hand, looked on him with undisguised apprehension, as one in authority who would give him lines the first time he came into contact with him, and cane him if he ever did it again. "Suppose I tell him?" suggested Barry.
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