Another time a box of shoes washed ashore.

They were left-hand shoes, all of them.

The right-hand box must have landed somewhere else.
And a hundred conchs blossomed forth with brand new shoes.
They could wear the left shoe, of course, with no special bother.

And they slit down the vamp of the shoe they put on the right foot, so their toes could stick out and not be cramped.

A good many people think they still lure ships ashore by flares.