The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-03-16
The Shoemaker.

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| Jim Tewksbury was shoemaker.
| A promising young man,
i Hut never kept his promises a,t s1 M
/ shoemaker never can. 30
A"Your boots,'. he'd say, "shall ready be =
4 At morn on Saturday.
I But go for them you sat a day, t
| Nor carried them away.
j For Jim would surely put you off,
X Of that there was no doubt ftEss
| And though you came to put them on,
| He always put You out. d aJ4st
4 And so it was. how oft you called, ,lssg
| And for your boots did ask,
II always turned out in the end 80
TO be a bootless task.
| The only way was threatening:
! linen Tewksbury understands s..45fs.s.
If you can't have them on your feet,
y You III leave them on his hands 81
| This always proves an argument
OF truly wondrous heft, @ 3stV3s
And nd, Tswksblry fsgk 81 Moud 60 right to
| Perhaps you knowa shoemaker -
| Like Jim-then to him say,
You think it pays to make me wait, 5iI
/ Now wait, sir, for your pay"
| This, children, is the shoemaker. I
warrant me you have seen him sitting on
his bench; but the promises he makes
there have not the force of bench war
rant. stIf IS tfG 4s g
+ Go to him to heel your shoe, and he Il
disappoint you.
He says ssthere' nothing like leather, y
and yet lie, well knows that the paper
board he puts into your shoes looks ex-
actly like leather. fs saa Il
Therefore, you should not trust the
shoemaker-unless he viii trust YOU
The shoemaker is sometimes called a
cordwainer.. Accord wanes between
you and him after a short acquaint-
ance.i fgli3 fegs afsa sAfagf a,l fs
p st. Crispin is the shoemaker patron
saint. A man must be saint to be the
patron Of a shoemaker. s.esa as E3f I
Crispin was martyr. He probably
had corns. That must have been the
martyr with him., Ii be had a corn it
was because his shoes was a grain tight
He was a Roman, and all shoemakers
like their customers to be roamin' as much
as possible. a ll'ssaF fHi
He fled to Gaul in the third century.
That is the reason all shoemakers have
SO much gall! s 5lii
1t is. said that he stole leather to make
shoes for the poor. His followers still
make poor shoes, but 1 never heard of
their stealing leather. 49, go
The shoemaker's shop is more danger
Gus, by the way, than the dramshop. You
are always sure of a tight fit at the shoe
makers.
gf There are some good things to say OF
The shoemaker. Ii you will repair to his
shop. he will repair your understanding.
Therefore, you stand under obligations
to him..
He repairs your boots when they are
Worn, and when they are entirely gone,
he repairs your feet I'D
This repairing those feet Of yours is one
of the features you had not thought of, ]
suspect
Then the shoemaker puts you on Your
taps, when your sole is about ready to
leave you; when you are down at the
heel he stlaightens yori up. and when you
have nothing to stand upon he puts youl|
on new footing.
io The shoemaker works with a stirrnp I
With it he can stir,up the lazy appren-
tice.
9 The shoemaker also uses wax ends. A
Whaek sends the apprentice to work when !
he is idle. Idle like to be an apprentice? |
Guess not 81 Ast+si ss s#t'a' is7fE' s@
\ The shoemaker is q disinterested fel.
low.
y The shoemaker has a great many tools, 4
and 'he has to use awl Whenhe sews. Sos I
this true, when he pegs.
Il he shoemaker is always pegging away.
de continues to drive pegs in until he pegs
ont.
There have been many celebrated shoe
makers. They rose high in. public life,
although they began at the foot.
Il In some countries the wooden shoe is
worn by the peasantry. Wooden shoe
think they would be clumsy?
Boots are made rights and lefts. 1t is
right to put one on the left soot, and it is
left to put the other on the right foot. =
But you have had enough of the shoe
maker Let us not feel above him, though
we often feel above his work. tHl sdi
May he live long, and when he has
passed the last lap Of his earthly race may
: lap stone be erected to his memory
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