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Show The Language of Gloves. The boxing-glove means: "Step on the tail of me coat, if ye dare." Yarn mittens : Who says I'm proud ? Let's be comfortable." White kids: "Shoo fly! don't bother me." ' Black kids : "It's me ; take off vour hat." j Green kids: "I'm not so old as I look." Lavender kids: "Is he looking this way." Lisle thread: "I'm proud, but prud-dent." prud-dent." Buckskin gloves : "Get out of the way or I'll step on you." Fur gauntlets : "Who'd want to live in a bandbox?" Torn gloves: "I could be happy anywhere." any-where." Six-button : "I'm not to be sneezed at." Big diamond ring worn over the glove : "Don't you wish you was me?" Buttoning gloves with a hairpin in a streetcar: "I'll get there if it kills a horse." Buckskin mittens: "Plague take such weather." Dogskin gauntlets : "Go the other way if you don't like the dust." Bare knuckles : "I don't ask any favors fav-ors of anybody." Hard gloves: "Are ve there, Moriar-ity?" |