The Republican journal., 1875-11-18


| TIGHT Doors. Fleeing and transient u is
| the human memory, there are some things that
sink into it and stay there like a piece of cold
lninee pie in mans stomach, When il is eaten
Just before going to bed Flowers will fade and
| early apples are Liable to rot. but the recolec-
lion OF the first time that Il ba,htu man asks :,
girl if he shall see her home or the remembrance
| of the first time he ever Wore boSomed shirt,
| Will cling to him longer than The smell Of fried
! doughnuts Will lingcr round IN Old shawl. But
even these will fade away in time; but the per-
| son who ever wore a pair of tight boot, Will re-
member it for twenty-five thousand miles, ANA
then ii Will stand ont as clear ;l> the block let
ters on Il tombstone. There is Il bare possible
ity that the reader may get wrong impression
about tight boots. Our meaning is hat TIE
boots are light, and not the Wearer. II does
| not make much difference to the boots which
way this is, but ii make, all the difference IN
the world IN his story. We mad a pair once,
and the thoughts of them even now makes us
pun oil our boots and sit in our stockings Il,
| we write. We never can forget those boots.
| They Were a9 small rs the temperance vote in
made a mistake, that they were made to % on
| the inside, instead of the outside 81 our feet
| He assured us that if we could oct them on
once, We never would haze any trouble in put
| ting them on again. And he was right: we
! never did. We never tried TO put them On
after that lr>t time. We donated Them to the
Spanish lniui>iti0n. by the AID of some pow
dered SoapStuuC Were slid into them. We
pulled with Il pair Of patent rnlicr>, while the
man rubbed and coaXed them on. He said
| they We're Il splendid it, not 4 wrinkle in them.
| OF course there WAS not. Ii an elephant could
crawl into an army mules hide, his shin would
| not wrinkle. We paid for the boots, and start.
| ed for our place Of business. lhe pHNiM' for
them then was nothing to the pain Of them in
IL few minutes after we left The shop. We had
not proceeded more than four blocks when it
occurred TO Us that we had got somebody cse's
| feet our legs, and that those same feet were
| troubled with the jumping toothachG. So con
| WINGED Were We of This FACT that we sat down
on the curbstone and looked At them They
| stuck up like Il couple Of small negro babies,
| bat they did not look natural. The bottoms of
our feet felt aS il some onc WAS driving carpet
! tacks into them, about It quarter Of IN inch
| apart. while the inStcp ronI eyed 70 as the idea
| that it was the corner stone of trinity church,
| and that the weight of the whole building was
| bearing on that particular SPOT There were
g two soles with but single thought" and
| that thought was how we could Get back TO
that bootmahcI and kill him The quickest way.
| What a pleasure the sight at Il big foot would
| ,,tt hot min l1 a |,
| Us then exposing large size No. ii, we should
| have proposed to her-proNoscd that we swap
| boots. "rhere's nothing like leather" We
believe it, especially when it is made into Il
| pair of tight boots and YOU are 400 miles away
from your mother in big city, working for
| small salary. 1t Punched our arithmetic gunaz-
inglY One foot to the acher was all we could
allow. If we could have got hold of that boot
maker at that moment and dropped him unno-
ticed into a sausage machine, and few minutes
after had the pleasure of seeing him hang MP in
the window in quarter OF Il pound links, we be
lieve that we would have bought the whole cdi-
ton, and lived sausage till we felt sure there
| was no more of that man. When we stood up,
| all the blood in us seemed to settle down into
our boots. and if they had not been well ma lie,
! we are confident they would have burst. When
we sat down on the clrbStonc the blood BEGAN
| to run back out of our boots into us, which
| gave our feet little more room, and conse-
quGntlN relieved the pam some. A. soon Us
| we could get command enough Of our feet so
| We could stand up and balance ourSclt, we
| took Il deliberate and very cautious ann for The
| bootmaker's. Every time we put or foot
down on The pavement we drove those carpet
| tacks into us Il little further, and Wc stepped rs
carefully as if or feet were made Of plate glass
and valued at $1,000 each We could not bend
them any more than a Girl can in pull back
dress. II that whole street had been paved
with eggs, it is our opinion that we wonld not
have cracked one, we walked so light BY the
time we arrived at the shop, a few live Goals
dropped into our boots would have cooled our
feet some; and they pricked worse than u rich
mans conscience, and I'LL the time Trinity
| church was bearing down on our instep. We
stumbled into the shop, sank down on Il sofa,
and called for a boot-jack nstaner. He was
Dutchman, and he said Veil, / don't got
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