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قراءة كتاب How to Make a Shoe
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اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 8
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Hammer solid both heel and sole
Level as it can be;
Whittle the heel down to a size
Close to the nails you’ll see.
To smooth the heel up nice;
For when around it you have gone,
Its work will here suffice.
Cut down the breast, make it square,
Sand-paper it, if you please;
Then change position very fair,
And done with perfect ease.
Do not cut the upper;
This same thing is done to the boot,
And neither has to suffer.
These tools are bought in stores,
Known to the craft as “finding;”
Some are here from foreign shores,
Which serve us a binding.
From the heel, around the toe,
Down to the heel on the other side—
Our shoe begins to show.
The bottom buffed, all but the top,
Sand-paper all, now, we think;
Just mark a place across the shank
To be blackened well with the ink.
And looks as if we’ve parted;
But that’s not so, as we well know
We are nearer than when we started.
The ink when burnished with hot kit—
A little heel ball is the thing
To use, so that it will be fit
To put upon a king.
The last time for the present;
To part, perhaps, will give us pain;
Perhaps be very pleasant.
A burnisher for the heel, behold!
Use briskly when we finish,
For this tale is nearly told,
Its parts seem to diminish.
Many parts have made the whole,
Some parts are much effected;
But when the parts are whole in one,
They do become respected.
After quite a travel;
Though the road was rough from place to place,
The thread did not unravel.
J. P. H., Jr.