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After that they were silent for a while, during which Moggs senior was cutting his nails with a shoemaker's knife by the fading light of the evening, and Moggs junior was summing up an account against a favoured aristocrat, who seemed to have worn a great many boots, but who was noticeable to Ontario, chiefly from the fact that he represented in Parliament the division of the county in which Percycross was situated.
While, therefore, in some cases, she was able to go by herself, in others she was obliged to refrain from going altogether, and, as a matter of course, offence was given. The natural consequence was that the number of callers rapidly diminished, and "the Golden Shoemaker's" reputation for eccentricity was thoroughly established.
Nobody, therefore, attempts to practise any other art in his own home as, for instance, the shoemaker's, or the fuller's, or any other of the easier kinds but only architecture, and this is because the professionals do not possess the genuine art but term themselves architects falsely.
'The servants pushed him out of the palace, and, added a few blows to teach him not to be insolent, replied the man. 'Then they did very ill, answered the king, with a frown. 'He came here from kindness, and there was no reason to maltreat him. 'Oh, my lord, he had the audacity to wish to touch your majesty's sacred person he, a good-for-nothing boy, a mere shoemaker's apprentice, perhaps!
So low had The Regeneration of Footwear descended: it justified its title in a manner quite distinct from that intended by the one who had bestowed it. Senor Ignacio, a master workman, had been compelled through lack of business to abandon the awl and the shoemaker's stirrup for the nippers and the knife; creating for destroying; the fashioning of new boots for the disembowelling of old.
It was at a shoemaker's; a pleasant, jovial fellow, who, in his county dialect, called his wife nothing but trollop; an appellation which she certainly merited.
But in summer she had to go barefoot, because she was poor, and in winter she wore thick wooden shoes, so that her little instep became quite red, altogether red. In the middle of the village lived an old shoemaker's wife; she sat, and sewed, as well as she could, a pair of little shoes, of old strips of red cloth; they were clumsy enough, but well meant, and the little girl was to have them.
There was the saddlery bazar, where one could buy magnificent trappings for one's Arab steeds, saddle-cloths embossed with gold, bridles of scarlet silk, a single rein which makes you look as if you were managing a horse by a single thread, and bridles of silver and ivory. There was a shoemaker's bazar. How different from a shoe shop in England!
"Well, I never used a club on a man yit," he said. "Where did it happen at?" "Up there at his place. He'd been chasin' me for two days, and when he went back after grub, I reckon I doubled on him. Just as he went in the door I got him. I left him with his damn feet stickin' out like a shoemaker's sign." "How fur was you off from him, Mark?" "Fifty yards, more 'r less."
Si found it really good, comparatively speaking, even though it was very much like a dish compounded of the sweepings from around a shoemaker's bench. A good appetite was indispensable to a real enjoyment of this which the soldiers called by a name that cannot be given here but Si had the appetite, and he ate and was thankful.
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