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Let us now compare the Irish shoeblack's metaphorical language with the sober slang of an English blackguard, who, fortunately for the fairness of the comparison, was placed somewhat in similar circumstances. Lord Mansfield, examining a man who was a witness in the court of King's Bench, asked him what he knew of the defendant. "Oh, my lord, I knew him. I was up to him."
In the corner a poodle is being clipped, just as we may see to-day beside the Seine, and is loudly vociferating his complaints; and, above all, we see the quaint ensign of the trade, which combined the shoeblack's lower art with that of the dog-barber. Aux Quarante Lions St. Louis Décrotte
Then if you give still more close attention you will hear the doors open and shut along the street, the footsteps of the passengers, the scraping of the shovel of the mud-carts; nay, if he happen to stand near, you may even hear the jingling of the shoeblack's pence as he plays pitch and toss upon the pavement.
Though the metonymy of bread-earner for a shoeblack's knife may not equal these in elegance, it perhaps surpasses them in ingenuity. I gives it him up to Lamprey in the bread-basket. Homer is happy in his description of wounds, but this surpasses him in the characteristic choice of circumstance.
"I mean that he has spent the money he stole from us in buying a shoeblack's apparatus, and seems to think it's something to be proud of, too," I replied. Jack laughed. "He might have done worse. My boots want blacking, Fred; let's go round by Style Street."
"With these rules, literature provided a man does not mistake his vocation for it, and will, under good advice, go through the preliminary discipline of natural powers, which all vocations require is as good a calling as any other. Without them, a shoeblack's is infinitely better." "Possibly enough," muttered Harley; "but there have been great writers who observed none of your maxims."
"With these rules, literature provided a man does not mistake his vocation for it, and will, under good advice, go through the preliminary discipline of natural powers, which all vocations require is as good a calling as any other. Without them, a shoeblack's is infinitely better." "Possibly enough," muttered Harley; "but there have been great writers who observed none of your maxims."
Now, if only this little beggar and poor old Ludwig could have gone into partnership, and so have shared between them the shoeblack's power of enjoying and the king's stock of enjoyments, what a good thing it would have been for both of them especially for King Ludwig. He would never have thought of drowning himself then life would have been too delightful. But that would not have suited Fate.
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