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Updated: June 20, 2025
You used to be pretty chummy, though, didn't you?" "Never," replied Steve with emphasis. Durkin blinked again and looked puzzled. "Well, he was trying to find you that night. So I supposed " "What night?" "The night I went to tell you about that shoe-blacking stand. It's almost as good as new, Edwards " "You say Sawyer was looking for me that night? How do you know?
He drew a long breath of relief when he was conducted into the sitting-room, where his mother was waiting for him guarded by two more robbers, whose hands and faces were covered with something that looked like shoe-blacking.
He seated himself on a bench and observed, with a contemptuous air, a squad of soldiers engaged in the invigorating exercise of standing on one leg in the full sunshine, and wriggling their bodies so as to be roasted on both sides. Didn't I see the other day that this so-called army requires 1500 boxes of shoe-blacking, 600 curry-combs, 3000 yards of gold-lace and 8640 brass buttons?
My own observation, although not continuous enough to have scientific value, leads me to think that stout men are the more inveterate patrons of the shoe-blacking parlor, Cæsar should have run one, and that the present popularity of the sponge in a bottle may derive from superfluous girth.
The visitor advanced a little, drew from a recess a shoe-blacking outfit, pulled over it one of the stiff blankets from a neighboring bunk, and sat down rather cautiously. Little by little James made out more of the look of the man. He was large and rather blond, well-dressed, clean-shaven. He spoke English easily, but with a foreign accent.
How often have I been consulted as to the best school for boys in England, or instructed as to how much I should let my man charge me for shoe-blacking, or advised as to the most effectual way of preventing the butler from stealing my cheroots, while Dora Harris, remote as a star, talked to a cavalry subaltern about wind-galls and splints!
"Out with it, then, at once, you pot of shoe-blacking," cried the impatient Corrie. The girl immediately related all that she knew regarding the fugitives, stammering very much from sheer anxiety to get it all out as fast as she could, and delaying her communication very much in consequence, besides rendering her meaning rather obscure sometimes unintelligible.
Unless unless you'd rather have the shoe-blacking stand, Tom?" "I would. If we had that, perhaps you'd keep your shoes decent!" Steve tipped Tom's cap over his eyes. "Rude ruffian!" he growled affectionately.
Two shabby black men passed by on plough-mules, and between them, on a poor, smart horse, all store clothes, watch-chain, and shoe-blacking, rode the president of the Zion Freedom Homestead League, Mr. Cornelius Leggett, of Leggettstown. John went in.
Their sister was called 'the little schoolma'am with the crazy brothers! Robert Burns, the Scotch poet, was the son of a laboring man. Charles Dickens earned money by sticking labels in a shoe-blacking factory. William Shakespeare's father made gloves. Benjamin Franklin was the son of a candlemaker.
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