Show jonn JOHN ADAMS adaz ts it i is perhaps owing to the very fact of his humble parentage that the elder adams became what he was wag I 1 have never seen the story in print but it legitimately descended to me roe by oral tradition having been told my grandfather by the pious oa 05 old oid deacon adams of the chur church ch in braintree Brain tree himself the deacon during a temporary absence had bad set seb john to cutting out the uppers for fon some shoes but like the chinaman who in making a pair of breeches from a pattern furnished by some prudent captain had faithful ly copied the tle patches which his wife had put pui in the seat of the old ones john cadem hadem had embellished belli shed every upper he had bad cut with the three cornered hole hoie by which the patterns hung on their accustomed nail 1 I saw said baid the deacon 1 I make a shoe mainer malcer so I 1 put 1 0 |