Show Toistol as a Shoemaker Those shoes wore mado by Tolstoi tho greatest literary genius of tho age Tho shoes framed In oak hung overtime over-time mantel a coarso pair of cowhides with hob nails The speaker who was a famous manufacturer of shoos wonton wont-on When I was In Ilusila I visited Tolstol I told him of my admiration I for his books and I watched him at I his cobbling Ho worts you know throe or four hours a day on tho bench I found that he worked too slowly to make a living as a shoemaker Furthermore I found that ho would have been Incapable of turning out dress shoes The coarse heavy boot of tho peasant was all Tolstoi was equal to and though he labored fiercely fierce-ly for he wanted of course to showoff show-off before an experienced shoemaker like meI had to tell him that hed havo had difficulty In getting a Jour neymans Job anywhere Tolstoi presented mo with a pair of boots ovor tho mantel and I presented pre-sented him with some money for his poor I also taught him a quicker way ta waxond a thread than the oldfash ioned ono ho used |