Shakespeare would have to come back to life to do that, and I doubt if he could have done it.

I _know_ that Bacon could not.
Whitey's first impulse was to put the boots on, and go out and show them to all the men in the bunk house.

His next impulse was to save the surprise till morning, when the decorations on the boots would show better.
But he put them on.

And after his father had finished unpacking, Whitey sat in the living-room with him, and it is to be feared that he listened rather absent-mindedly to his father's talk.

He would stretch out his legs and admire the boots.