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Show Tle Stac Ilcro'a Uoots. Tlie stage hero always wears patent leather boots, aud they aro always spotlessly clean. Sometimes ho is rich, and lives in a room with seven doors to it, and at other times he is starving in 1 a garret; but in either event ho still wears brand new patent leather boots. He might raise at least three and nix-pence nix-pence on those boots, and when the baby is crying for food it occurs to us that it would bo better if instead of praying to heaven ho took off his boots and pawned them, but this does not occur to him. lie crosses the African desert in patent leather boots, does ttie stage, hero, llo takes a supply with him when he is wrecked on an uninhabited un-inhabited island. llo arrives from long and trying journeys; bis clothes' are ragged and torn, but his boots are new and sluny. He puts on patent leather boots to trarup through the Australian bush, to light in Egypt, to discover the North Pole. He goes boating in patent leather boots, he plays cricket in thein, he goes llsbing and shooting in them. Sometimes he is a gold digger, sometimes some-times a deck laborer, sometimes a soldier, sometimes a sailor, but whatever what-ever he is he wears patent leather boots. Jerome K. Jerome in Stage Iand. , |