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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Think of picking a six-quart pail full of shoe-buttons, or what amounts to that. Now, blackberries count up." The adage that many hands make light work was never better exemplified than on that July day in the berry pasture.
Poor Jakie jumped two feet into the air, nearly frightened out of his wits; and I was frightened, too, for I feared he might set the house on fire. Often when I got up from my chair a shower of the bird's playthings would fall from his various hiding-places about my dress,-nails, matches, shoe-buttons, bread-crumbs, and other things. Then he had to begin his work all over again.
Neither of them noticed Van Meter, who also lived at Babylon in the summer, board the train as it pulled out of the station. He was a pompous little man, short and red-faced, with gray side whiskers and bald head. His eyes were sharp and beady and shined like shoe-buttons. Piety and thrift were written all over him.
It would be four hours before the night freight slowed up at the water tank, and Phelan, tired from his long tramp, and drowsy from the heat and the vapor rising from the drying clothes, shifted the shoe-buttons from under his left ear, and drifted into dreamland. How long he slept undisturbed, only the scarecrow outside knew.
Poor Jakie jumped two feet into the air, nearly frightened out of his wits; and I was frightened, too, for I feared he might set the house on fire. Often when I got up from my chair a shower of the bird's playthings would fall from his various hiding-places about my dress, nails, matches, shoe-buttons, bread-crumbs, and other things. Then he had to begin his work all over again.
He will come into the house whenever the screen door is left open, and he seems to have a perfect mania for picking shoe-buttons and shoe-strings. I suppose it's because of the way he's been brought up, but he's so fond of human society that he makes a perfect nuisance of himself."
Moreover, he had never saved a jockey's life nor a jockey's mother from eviction, hence feed-box tips were not likely. Nor did he know a single soul in the business of inventing rat-traps or shoe-buttons.
Sandy leaned forward in time to see a figure on all fours plunging back into the shrubbery. "Annette," he whispered excitedly, "did you see that man's face?" "Yes," she said, clinging to his arm; "don't leave me, Sandy!" "What did he look like? Tell me, quick!" "He had little eyes like shoe-buttons, and his teeth stuck out. Do you suppose he was hiding?"
They were th' gr-reatest liars in th' wurruld an' formerly friends iv th' Prisidint. "All these here things I heerd fr'm Hogan an' see in th' pa-apers. I invied this wondherful nation. I wisht, sometimes, th' Lord hadn't given me two blue an' sometimes red eyes an' this alkiline nose, but a nose like an ear an' a couple iv shoe-buttons f'r eyes.
Sara could hear it, too; and it sounded like the ghost of a dead breeze in a pine-top. As soon as Sara could take her ravished eyes from the sight, she looked down to see what was nuzzling about her shoe-buttons; and, just as she had suspected, it was the Snoodle, frisking and tumbling and rolling about her feet to make her notice him. And, indeed, when he was awake, the Snoodle was irresistible.
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