The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-05
For the Children.
lGooDy TWO SHOES.

| A queer name for little girl, to be
| sure, but it was no wonder that people
| called her "Goody Two Shoes as you
! shall soon hear. Her real name was
| Margery, and her brothers name was
| Tommy, and the two poor little things
| had no kind father to work and earn
| money to buy food and clothes for them.
| and no mother good and dear" to take
care of them. So they wandered about,
| always together, hand in hand, poor and
| ragged and lonely, and often tired and
| hungry.
| The people in the village used to give
! them something to eat, and the children
| often found berries IN the woods and
| along the roadside Every night, when
| the sun set and it began to grow dark,
| Tommy and Margery would walk up to
| some farm house and say to the farmer
| or his wife: eff you please, may we
sleep in your barn tonight?"
Yes, indeed, and very welcome" the
farmer would say; and then the two chill
dren would run to the barn and make
themselves cosy, warm nest in the hay
and be as happy as two little birds.
But there are so many kind of people
IN the word that children are not left
long to wander about without home.
as Tommy and Margery had been doing;
and it happened that a kind geltleman
who saw them trotting about together
che day felt very sorry for them.
He saw Margery's fat little feet all
scratched with walking barefoot over
stones and stubble. 81 can cure that"
he said to himself; and he took the chill
dren to the cobbler's and said: Good
Mr.. Cobbler, here is work for you. Will
you do it?''
THAT 1 will, and gladly answered the
cobber. SO he measured Margerys foot,
that he might know just how large to
make the shoes, and set to work immedi-
ately.
He cut two pieces of leather from
large thick piece which he had, and
shaped them, for the soles And he cut
the uppers from the thin leather, and
busy enough he was then, boring holes
with his mice little awl," and putting
his waxed; ends through and through" :.
as he stitched away, sewing the lear
together for Margery's shoes. But while
the eobbler was working away, the kind
gentleman who had told him to make
the shoes had been making some moro
kind plans.
Tommy he said, IT will take you
with me when 1 go back to my ship, and
you shall learn to be a sailor and good
Mrs Smith said: Surely, then, 4->,le
Margery shall live with me-
So it was settled; the only sad thing
being that Tommy and Margery had to
other many times when the day came for
Tommy to go away. After he had gone.
lItste Margery went one day and looked
in at the cobbler's window.
There he sat with a big fiat stone on
his lap and a hammer in his hand, and
what was he doing but rap-tap-tapping
away putting the pegs into Margerys
shoes and fastening the uppers and sthe
soles together You may be sure 1t was
not long after that before the shoes were
finished; and a good thing 1t was, too,
for they, say that poor little Margery ;
was so very lonely without her brother
that she might have cried herself sick !
but for the new shoes that were brought
home to her.
Dear me! If you could but have seen
how pleased she was! She had had to go
barefoot a long time, you must remem-
Der, and her little feet had often been
cold and scratched and hurt. Besides,
the new shoes were so shiny and black
and creaked a little when Margery walk
ed. Yes, indeed, 1t was delightful alto
gether.
Margery showed them to Mrs. Smith
as soon as ever the cobbler had put them
CD for her
Two shoes ma'am! Two shoes! said
the happy little creature over and over
again. L suppose she could scarcely re-
member having two shoes before, be-
cause size IldQ DcSH OdiclOOlCu 81 lOhS,
and before that she had gone about with
only one shoe on for a long time!
The other shoe had been lost when
she and Tommy first began their wander
:Egs.
At any rate, little Margery seemed
oVerjoyed at having two new shoes at
once, and ran about first to one friend
in the village and then to another, al
ways putting out her feet and saying:
1.-TWO shoes See, two shoes!'
Everybody was glad to see the little
girl so joyful. and they used to smile at
one another in a happy way and say:
''Have you seen little Two Shoes?' or,
There goes Goody Two Shoes, bless her
heart" till finally people scarcely ever
remembered to call her Margery.
So now I have told you, as | said I
would, h,w q little girl came to have
such a queer name as 'Goody Two
Shoes and if you like, you shall hear
more about her another time for she
was a little dear and no mistake, and did
many things we'll worth your hearing
about-Retold by Emile Poulsson