Is there anything you need for yourself ?" "Oh, never mind me! I want Jimmy to have a pair of shoes." Jimmy looked with interest at his little bare feet, and thought he would like some shoes.

In fact they would be his first, for thus far in life he had been a barefooted boy.
"Jimmy shall have his shoes," said Mrs.Garfield; "when you see the shoemaker ask him to come here as soon as he can make it convenient." So, a few days later the shoemaker, who may possibly have had no shop of his own, called at the log-cabin, measured Jimmy for a pair of shoes, and made them on the spot, boarding out a part of his pay.
The first pair of shoes made an important epoch in Jimmy Garfield's life, for it was decided that he could now go to school..