Splendid are its walks and grass-plots Where the bootblacks base-ball play, And its seats resembling toad-stools, On which loafers lounge all day, Waiting for their luck, or gazing

Bootblacks have a sense of rhythm unparalleled.

That is why it is possible to drink your morning coffee without nausea for it, over the head-lines of forty thousand casualties at Ypres, but to push back abruptly at a three-line notice of little Tony's, your corner bootblack's, fatal dive before a street-car.

He passed unnoticed, except by the filthy little Arab bootblacks who swarmed about him, trotting, capering, yelping cheerfully: "Mista Ferguson!polish, finish!can-cansee nice Frencha girlMista McKenzie, Scotcha fella from Dublinsmotta picturepolish, finish!"undertoned by a squabbling chorus.

I slep' with Buck the bootblack that night, an' nex' mornin', early, I started out in the country.

" "Just the business for him", said Tom, "unless he should prefer to go to New York and set up as a bootblack.

Perhaps, though, he will prefer to go to the city and become a bootblack.

The stores, workshops and other apartments are generally exceedingly small, and the proverbial economy of the Chinaman is proved by the fact that every square foot of floor space and ground is put to some practical use, and one finds cobblers, barbers, fortune-tellers and a multitude of small tradesmen carrying on a business in a jog, or niche in the wall, not as large as an ordinary bootblack's stand.

"Look here, young chap," said Andy, "what made you tell me that was the Merchants' Bank?" "Isn't it?" asked the bootblack, with a grin.

The newsboy, he spouts it, The bootblack, he shouts it, The washwoman sings it all wrong;

As he plunged into the crowd that checked and surged immediately in front of the line of Sikhs, a small man in Arab costume with the lower part of his face well covered by the kaffiyi,* rushed out from the corner behind the bootblacks and drove a long knife home to the hilt between the policeman's shoulder-blades.

I knew that if the bootblack saw the excavated heel he would in all probability report the fact, and my arrest would follow.

No girl under 16 may be bootblack or sell papers or any other wares publicly.

Still a part of its pavement remained and appeared gloriously obstructed by an arch of triumph near whose weatherbeaten stone base were working barefooted bootblacks wearing the scarlet fez.

Noel F. Busch (A); 1Dec72; R540859. Bootblacks in Belgrade.

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher from his rostrumthe New York County Court House bootblack stand.

Untitled drawing depicting man and bootblack.

Noel F. Busch (A); 1Dec72; R540859. Bootblacks in Belgrade.

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher from his rostrumthe New York County Court House bootblack stand.

Untitled drawing depicting man and bootblack.

"I'd rather enjoy seeing the mess Ferry and Jarve get into with a corps of bootblacks to make hay for them.

He has a brother only a little older, who is a bootblack.

If the Empire had lasted ten years longer, I could have had a king for a bootblack.

"Shine 'em so's yer can see yer face in 'em?" urged the bootblack.

"No, I tell you!" "Coward," hissed the bootblack.