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A captain of a company, who will let his men march with such shoes as I have seen on the feet of some poor fellows in this war, ought to be garroted with shoestrings, or at least compelled to play Pope and wash the feet of the whole army of the Apostles of Liberty.
Martha Washington had as great a love of mischief as I. Two little children were seated on the veranda steps one hot July afternoon. One was black as ebony, with little bunches of fuzzy hair tied with shoestrings sticking out all over her head like corkscrews. The other was white, with long golden curls. One child was six years old, the other two or three years older.
"It's exquisite," said Cromer, looking at her admiringly; "a sweet disorder in the dress." "Oh, I know that lady you quote! She always had her shoestrings untied and her hat on crooked!" Cromer looked amazed, as if a saint had been guilty of heresy, and Patty laughed afresh at his astonished look. "If you want to see sweet disorder in dress, here's your chance," cried Mona.
Both of these lads used duckets, pencils, shoestrings and thimbles as an addition to their mute appeals, although it is a well-known fact that no genuinely afflicted paralytics or mutes, least of all boys, ever resort to begging for their living.
"I am a miserable groveler at the feet of humanity," he thought, "clutching at shrinking shoestrings for a piece of bread in pity's name. If I could see, God, if I only could!" He thought of all the little things which his blindness made it absolutely necessary for others to do for him, and his excited mind magnified them into colossal proportions.
Then, dropping the gopher unconcernedly in her pocket, she proceeded to rearrange her toilet. The tunnelman waited patiently until Peggy had secured the nankeen sunbonnet around her fresh but freckled cheeks, and, with a reckless display of yellow flannel petticoat and stockings like peppermint sticks, had double-knotted her shoestrings viciously when he ventured to speak. "Same old game, Peggy?
All the mines immediately in and about Johannesburg are practically exhausted. The large development today is in the eastern section. People do everything but eat gold in Johannesburg. Cooks, maids, waiters, bootblacks indeed the whole population are interested, or at some time have had an interest in a gold mine. Some historic shoestrings have become golden cables.
Both of the boys for Maurice seemed suddenly as much of a boy as Johnny! went on their knees to tie, and re-tie, the brown ribbons, Maurice with gleeful and ridiculous deference. "Want me to tie your shoestrings for you, Nelly?" he said over his shoulder.
The Men of Business were also infected with a Sort of Singularity little better than this. I have heard my Father say, that a broad-brimm'd Hat, short Hair, and unfolded Hankerchief, were in his time absolutely necessary to denote a notable Man; and that he had known two or three, who aspired to the Character of very notable, wear Shoestrings with great Success.
Really, Uncle John, this is a great event perhaps the most important event of our lives." "Shucks an' shoestrings!" grunted the Major. "What's in this paper-shelled, painted, hollow thing ye call 'society' to interest three healthy, wide-awake girls? Tell me that!" "You don't understand, dear," said Patsy, soothing him with a kiss. "I think he does," remarked Beth, with meditative brows.
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