Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-22
aooDY TWO sHoEa
Retold BY Emile roul.ss.s d

Retold By Emile PoulsBoL ID
A queer name for affittle girl to be sure.
but it was no wonder that people called her
"Goody Two Shoes" 40 you shall soon hear.
Her real name was Margery. and her
brothers name was Tommy, and the two
poor little things had no kifid father to work
and earn money to buy food and clothes for
them, and no mother good and DEAR to
take care of them othey wandered about.
always together. hand in hand. poor and
ragged and lonely. andt 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 sat
and 1t began to grow dark. Tommy and
Margery would walk up to some farm
house and say to the farmer or his wife:
IF you please, may we sleep In your barn
tonight"
Yes. indeed, and very welcome" the
farmer would say; and then the two chill
themselves a cozy, warm nest in the hay
and be as happy as two little birds.
But there are 80 many kind people In the
world that children are not left long to
wander about without a home, Tommy
and Margery had been doing. and 1t hap
pened that a kind gentleman who saw them
trotting about together one day felt very
sorry for them.
.
scratched with walking barefoot over stones
and stubble IT can cure that" he said to
himself: and he took the children to the
cobbler's and said: Good Mr.. Cobbler, here
is work for you. VIII you do TIT"
That + will. and gladly" answered the
cobbler. So he measured Margery's foot,
that he might know just how large to make
the shoes. and set to work Immediately.
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 nice little anvil"
and putting his waxed ends through and
through" as he stitched away, sewing the
leather together for Margery's shoes. But
while the cobbler was working away the
kind gentleman who had told him to make
the shoes had been making some more Kind
CLANS
Tommy" he said. IT will take you with
mo when I go back to my ship. and you
shall learn to be a sailor" and good Mrs.
Smith said: Surely. then. little Margery
shall live with me-
that Tommy and Margery~ had to be sepa-
rated. They cried and kissed each other
many times when the day came for Tommy
to go away. After he had gone little Mar
gerry went one day and looked in at the
cobbler's window.
There ne sat with a big fiat stone on his
lap and hammer in his hand, and what
was he doing but rap-tap-tapping away,
putting the pegs into Margery's shoes and
fastening the uppers and soles together.
You may be sure 1t was not long after that
before the shoes were finished: and good
thing 1t was. too. for they say that poor
little Margery was SO very lonely without
self sick but for the new shoes that were
brought home to her.
Dear mel II you could but have seen how
pleased she was! She had had to go bare
foot long time you must remember, and
he. fool hod nftn opI
scratched and hurt. Besides. the new shoes
were so shiny and black, and creaked a
little when Margery walked. Yes. indeed.
It was delightful altogether.
soon as ever the cobbler had put them on
for her. b.-.-
Two shoes. ma'mai Two shoesr said
the happy little creature over and over
Der having two shoes before, because she
had been barefooted 50 long; and before
that she had gone about with only one shoe
on for long time. j. ~
The other shoe had been lost when she
and Tommy hrst began their wanderings.
At any rate. little Margery seemed over
joyed at having two newrshoes at once, and
ran about first to one friend in the village
and then to anotherI always putting out
her feet and sayings 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 q happy way and say: Have
you seen little Two. Shoesr Or There goes
Goody Two Shoes. hdessE her heart!" till
finally people scarcely ever remembered to
call her Margery. D -y-s.tto .. -,.-
So now I have told you. as said would,
how a little girl came to have such q queer
name as "Goody Two Shoes" and, II you
like you shall hear more about her another
time, for she was little dear and no mis-
take, and did many things we'll worth your
hearing about.