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She caught him with a blow of it under the jowl, and he fell in a swoon. She stood over him, her back like the bend of a hoop, the tail beating about her, and a smile on the side of her face. And that was the end of the monstrous brewery rat." Padna said nothing, but put the cat down on the floor.
Padna said he would, and then went home. When Padna called on the shoemaker for the boots that had been left for repair they were almost ready. The tips only remained to be put on the heels.
Imitation of "O. Henry" has been the curse of American story-telling for the past ten years, because "O. Henry" is practically inimitable. Mr. Lewis is not an imitator, but he may well prove before very long to be "O. Henry's" successor. In the words of Padna Dan and Micus Pat, "Here's the chance for some one to make a discovery."
To see that fellow coming up out of a gullet and stepping up the street, in the middle of the broad daylight, you'd imagine he was the county inspector of police." "And did she fight the rat?" Padna asked. The shoemaker put the shoe on a last and began to tap with his hammer. "She did fight him," he said. "She went out to him twirling her moustaches. He lay down on his back.
He thought he never sat near a man so optimistic, so mentally emancipated, so detached from the indignity of his occupation. "These are very small shoes you are stitching," said Padna, making himself agreeable. "They are," said the shoemaker. "But do you know who makes the smallest shoes in the world? You don't?
The sense of mystery and ill-omen came back to me, and I carried away a memory of the dark figures of the people grouped about the lonely lighted house, standing there in sorrow for the flute-player, the grass at their feet sparkling with frost. Obeying a domestic mandate, Padna wrapped a pair of boots in paper and took them to the shoemaker, who operated behind a window in a quiet street.
Padna, who had been listening to the conversation of two farmers the evening before, replied, "I do. To make turnips grow." "Nonsense!" said the shoemaker, reaching out for an awl. "God makes it rain to remind us of the Deluge. And I don't mean the Deluge that was at all at all. I mean the Deluge that is to come. The world will be drowned again.
Padna looked at the hair without fear, favour, or affection, and said nothing. The shoemaker took his place on his bench, selected a half-made shoe, got it between his knees, and began to stitch with great gusto. Padna admired the skilful manner in which he made the holes with his awl and drew the wax-end with rapid strokes. Padna abandoned the impression that the shoemaker was a melancholy man.
Suddenly the great glasses were turned upon Padna himself, and the shoemaker addressed him in a voice of amazing pleasantness. "When did you hear the cuckoo?" he asked. Padna, at first startled, pulled himself together. "Yesterday," he replied. "Did you look at the sole of your boot when you heard him?" the shoemaker asked. "No," said Padna.
What do they talk to you at home about at all?" "The most thing they tell me," said Padna, "is to go to bed and get up in the morning. What is the name of the place in the country where they found you?" "Gobstown," said the shoemaker. "It was the most miserable place within the ring of Ireland. It lay under the blight of a good landlord, no better.
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