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Show u When a woman has a pair of new shoes sent home she performs altogether altogeth-er different from a man. 'She never shoves her toes into them and hauls until un-til she is red in the face and alt out of breath, and then go stamping' and kicking kick-ing around, but pulls them on half-way, carefully, twitches them off again . to take a last look and see if she has the right one, pulls them on again, looks at them dreamily, says they are just right ; then takes another look, stops suddenly sudden-ly to smooth out a wrinkle, twists around and surveys them sideways, exclaims, ex-claims, "Mercy, how loose they are !" looks at them again square in front; works her foot around so the shoe wont ' hurt her quite so much ; takes them off, looks at them, looks at the heel, the bottom bot-tom and the inside, puts them on again, 'walks up and down the room once or twice, remarks to her better half that she won't have them at any price, puts down the mirror to see how they look from that way, backs off, steps up again, takes thirty or forty farewell looks, says they make her feet awful big, and never will do in the world; puts them on and off three or four times more, asks her husband what he thinks about it, and then pays no attention to what he says, goes through it all again and finally says she will take them. Ex. |