"You know that little bootmaker's shop just down the road, before you come to the church.

Leaping into a cab, he thus escaped a perfumer and a bootmaker, and shortly found himself at the Lady Adeliza's feet.

I believe he works in a bootmaker's shop.

* HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN The Improvisatore Hans Christian Andersen was born at Odense, in Denmark, on April 2, 1805, the son of a poor bootmaker.

“Do you know how to snob?”—A snob in English slang is a bootmaker, so the squatter wanted his man to do a bit of boot-repairing.

Now, as every bootmaker will tell you, while the outer is often affected in this way, the inner side seldom is.

It was "Brown bootmaker, Bridgnorth."

Very faint in the center of the impression made by his sole, were two crossed arrows, the sign of the bootmaker.

The bootmaker looks at your boots and takes your intellectual, social and financial measurement from their quality and condition.

said the bootmaker to me one day, as he pointed to the toes of a pair I had just brought him for mending.

[Illustration: The Little Bootmaker] Knock, knock, knock!

THE LITTLE BOOTMAKER.

Hardy was a bootmaker in Fleet Street.

The stationer, the bootmaker, the glover, the perfumer, people who had courted Lady Lesbia's custom with an air which implied that the honour of serving fashionable beauty was the first consideration, and the question of payment quite a minor pointthese now began to ask for their money in the most prosaic way.

The bills came pouring in; dressmaker, milliner, glover, bootmaker, tailor, stationer, perfumer; awful bills which made Lady Maulevrier's blood run cold, so degrading was their story of selfish self-indulgence, of senseless extravagance.

I placed the bootmaker's awl in one strap, and his last-hook in the other, and with "two roses" mantling my cheeks, postured for the contest.

"They're on!" says the bootmaker.

Such firms as Lillywhite and Fortnum & Mason, which make a study of suitable equipment, may be trusted, and almost every Swiss bootmaker now sells trustworthy boots for Ski-ing.

Lewis Carroll gave instructions to the bootmaker as to how they were to be made, so as to be thoroughly comfortable, with the result that when they came home they were more useful than ornamental, being very nearly as broad as they were long!

A bootmaker's arrested him; he stood before the window for a long time, turning over and over in his pocket a sovereignno small fraction of the ready coin which had to support him until dividend day.

Mr. WESTMORELAND was having a pair of boots tried on at a famous Jermyn Street bootmaker's when Lord BEADING was undergoing a similar ordeal, and electrified the courteous assistant by observing: "The right-foot boot to me seems rather tight; The left, per contra, feels exactly right.

The local bootmaker or "chaplie-wallah" appeared, as by magic, on the scene, and chaplies were ordered.

E] Bootmaker.

Mountjoy had taken the precaution of having his letters addressed to the house of the friendly bootmaker; and now, as he was slowly pouring out his first cup of coffee, and thinking how nearly it must be his last, his father's letter was brought to him.

Here they were ushered in and seated alongside each other in church pews, while from a pulpit he preached to them a sermon on dandyism, adjuring his bootmakers and tailors implicitly to obey his briefs in the matter of style, threatening them with pecuniary excommunication if they failed to follow to the letter the instructions contained in his monitories and bulls.