I've done everything wanted in a shoe or a boot with my own hands already; Hector will tell you so.

I could begin to be a shoemaker to-morrow.

That is nearer than a carpenter.

Yes." "I was going to suggest," said his grannie, "that there's a kind of work that goes yet nearer to the people it helps than any of those.

But, of course, if you've made up your mind"-- "Oh no, grannie! I don't mean it so much as that--if there's a better way, you know.