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It was felt that mental befuddlement and mortal folly could reach no greater heights or no lower depths than on a certain hour of a certain day, along toward the end of August, when O'Day came forth from his quarters in Gafford's stables, wearing a pair of boots that M. Biederman's establishment had turned out to his order and his measure not such boots as a sensible man might be expected to wear, but boots that were exaggerated and monstrous counterfeits of the red-topped, scroll-fronted, brass-toed, stub-heeled, squeaky-soled bootees that small boys of an earlier generation possessed.
I also, incidentally, by getting a light from the coach-house box of matches, ascertained that the match found was of the sort generally used about the establishment the large, thick, red-topped English match. But I further found that Mr. Lloyd had a parrot which was a most intelligent pet, and had been trained into comparative quietness for a parrot.
Phronsie still sat on the floor by the big bureau, with one red-topped shoe in her hand, and patting it. "The other one is on, Polly," said Phronsie, as she saw Polly's face; "truly it is," and she stuck one foot out. "I sh'd think it was," laughed Polly; "every button is in the wrong button-hole, Phronsie." Phronsie looked at the little shoe very gravely, then her lip quivered.
Rovol then leaned back in his seat but the red-topped stops continued to appear, at the rate of exactly seventy per minute, upon the panel, which increased in width sufficiently to accommodate another row as soon as a row was completed.
On Sundays these same boys sat with trousers creeping above the wrinkles at the ankles of their copper-toed, red-topped boots, recited golden texts, sang "When He Cometh," and while planning worse for their own little brothers, read with much virtuous indignation of little Joseph's wicked brothers, who put him in a pit.
The Norlaminian physicist, set up one integral, stepped upon a pedal, and a new red-topped stop precisely like the others and numbered in order, appeared as though by magic upon the panel at Seaton's left hand.
Slowly unrolling this before the delighted eyes of the child, who stood patiently waiting, she disclosed the precious red-topped shoes which Phronsie immediately clasped to her bosom. "My own, very own shoes! whole mine!" she cried, and trudged out into the kitchen to put them on herself. "Hulloa!" cried Dr.
Now Greeley had a fear of what the dour old Scotchman might tell upon him. It would not pay to lose his Celtic temper. "It was to church I was goin'." he growled. "'Twas why I was wearin' me red-topped high boots." "Where was church that day, whatever? At the Widow Schmitt's?" Jimmie squirmed. "You mentioned the beautiful spring, I mind," he countered deftly. Suddenly Jim Hutch grinned.
At the head of the procession marched Peep O'Day only, of course, the proprietor didn't know it was Peep O'Day a queer figure in his rumpled black clothes and his red-topped brass-toed boots, and with one hand holding fast to the string of a captive toy balloon. Behind him, in an uneven jostling formation, followed many small boys and some small girls.
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