The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-08

The Shoemaker.
.Jim Tewksbury was q shoemaker.
A promising young man,
Int mover kept his promises
shoemaker never can
~Your boots," he'd say. 'shali ready Be
At morn on Saturday.
But 60 for them, you sat day,
Nor carried them away.
For Jim would surely put you OF
OF that there was no doubt
And though you came to put them on
He always put you out.
And so it was, how oft you called.
And for your boots did ask,
1t always turned out in the end
To be . boouess task.
The only way was threatening;
Then Tewksbury understands
If you can't have them on your feet,
You'll leave them on his hands.
This always proves an argument
OF truly wondrous heft,
And Tewksbury would 60 right to work
For fear OF getting left
Perhaps you know q shoemaker
Like Jim then TO him say,
you think it pays to make me watt
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.
Go to him to heel your shoe. and he'll
disappoint you.
He says ''there's nothing like leather"
and yet he well knows that the paper
board he puts into your shoes looks ex-
actly like leather.
Therefore, you should not trust the
shoemaker-unless he will trust you.
The shoemaker is sometimes called a
cordwainer. Accord wanes between
you and him after . short acquaint-
ance.
st. Crispin is the shoemaker's patron
saint. A man must be saint to be the
patron of a shoemaker.
Crispin was martyr. he ProDaDiy
bad corns. That must have been the
martyr with him. If he had corn it
was because his shoes was grain tight.
He was Roman, and all shoemakers
like their customers to be roamin' as much
as possible.
He fed to Gaul in the third century.
That is the reason all shoemakers have
20 much gall.
1t is said that he stole leather to make
shoes for the poor. His followers still
make poor shoes, but never heard OF
their stealing leather.
The shoemaker's shop is more danger
Gus, by the way, than the dramshop. You
are always sure of tight fit at the shoe.
makers.
There are some good things to say o1
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.
This repairing those feet of yours is one
If the features you had not thought of,
suspects
Then the shoemaker puts you ON YOU
taps, when your sole is about ready II
leave you; when you are down at tht
heel he straightens You up, and when yo,
have nothing to stand upon he puts vol
on new footing.
With it he can stir up the lazy appren
tice.
The shoemaker also uses wax ends. 4
whack sends the apprentices to work whel
he is idle. Idle like to be an apprentice
Guess not.
| The shoemaker is disinterested fel
| low.
The shoemaker has great many tools
snd he has to use awl when he sews. So
this true when he pegs.
| The shoemaker is always pegging away
He continues to drive pegs in until he peg
| out.
There have been many celebrated shoe
makers. They rose high in public life
although they began at the foot.
| In some countries the wooden shoe j
worn by the peasantry. Wooden sho
think they would be clumsy?
Boots are made rights and lefts. 1t
right to put one on the left foot, and it j
left to put the other ON the right foot
But you have had enough Of the shoe
maker. Let us not feel above him, thoug
We often feel above his work.
May he live long, and when he ha
passed the last lap Of his earthly race ma
lap stone be erected to his memory
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