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Updated: July 22, 2025
She dived at once behind the cover of the lamp-room and affected serious trouble with her shoe-lace until he was out of the station, and then she followed slowly and with extreme discretion until the bifurcation of the Avenue from the field way insured her escape.
That peg leg frightened him. For a moment he was inclined to take to his heels, certain that this was the same wooden-legged man who gave Cis fruit. Then the tray reassured him. Shoelaces were one thing; fruit was another. It was while he was boldly inspecting the shoe-lace man's peg leg that he discovered he was in Broadway, this by reading the name of the street on the front of a passing car.
The Parson peered down. "All's quiet," he whispered. "Ready, Kit?" "Yes, sir." The boy stood up pale in the gloom. "Then ease those bolts away. Gently, Piper!" The old man opened quietly. A sweet wind stole in, and with it a flood of light. Kit peeped out. How naked it looked, how terrible! "One moment." He bent, untied his shoe-lace, and tied it up again.
But it is not worth while trying to make him falsify my character. Besides, you are here to amuse me." This speech, as she made it, was pleasantly audacious and clever. I laughed, and made a gesture of mock dissent, and she added: "Now I have finished my lecture. Please tie my shoe-lace there, and then, as I said, amuse me. Oh, you can, if you choose! You are clever when you like to be.
A favourite trick was to start a play without signals, while one of her men was ostensibly tying a shoe-lace yards away or requesting a new head-guard near a side-line. It invariably happened, though, that the shoe-lace was tied in time to allow the youth to get the ball on a pass and attempt a joyous romp around the opponent's end.
Every coat or tunic sat straight. Every shoe-lace was tied, and they marched with the beautiful, even step of soldiers on parade. They were to encamp beyond Jackson's old army, and as they passed along the turnpike it was lined on either side by Jackson's own men, cheering with vigor.
Among the last, looking about anxiously for a place to stand and watch the big race, are Telson and Parson, arm-in- arm. Captain Cusack hails them cheerily. "Well, who won, my boys? who won?" The dejected countenances of the two heroes is answer enough. "Watkins won," says Parson, speaking in a subdued voice. "The fact is, my shoe-lace came undone just when I was putting it on at the end."
"`Bravo, Barnworth, yells Violet. `Go it, old kangaroo, howls Dig. `Take your time and tuck in that shoe-lace, says Marky. `A million to one on our man, says I; and then up goes the bar to 5 foot 5; and then you could have heard a caterpillar wink. Old Barnworth looked a little green himself this time; and didn't seem in a hurry to begin.
He caught fragmentary bits of surmise and comment as he walked along; near a shadowy corner of the great church he purposely paused, pretending to tie his shoe-lace, in order to overhear a conversation between three or four men who had just emerged from the door of an adjacent tavern, and were talking in loud, somewhat excited tones: working men, these, whose speech was in the vernacular.
At twelve-thirty next morning a huge crowd lined up under the lindens to watch the School House parade. Rumour had flown round. It was a noble spectacle. Each section wore a different coloured shoe-lace. Gordon's wore pale blue, Rudd's pink, Foster's green, and Collin's orange. Everyone was shaking with laughter.
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