Tight Boots

His bootmaker bronglit mm a immuw flve and a quarter boot to go on a number six and a half fooi. and tl) o procesa of trying it on conviucod liim of tl tortures he would fre to rmdenro in wbat Sliakspeare h:is calli d "the Utfuin of the shoe." "Too smalVli1 says; "they hurt." "Hurt?" rt-plit' tin; artist, bitterly- "Liwf? Tlxv cmft hurt. I made 'em myself frora nifiismvmeuts 1 took myself, and they must be a rooniy fit - = nt tlicy do hiirt." " How in Erebi s o you know anytEing aliont it? Are yon a shot-maker? Whiit experiéaM have yon had, a'.iyhow?" "Sjfmíin.; oi' awtore," said the absenllious I hrtMJl-, fVS 1)0 IVUllfVed C'.I fora quarttr, "I b.ilive Ailataaml Evö were U) ftrft ruwer, were they nb( ï