Do not let me hear again that out-of-date word--boots." If there were only one young gentleman fresh from College, one maiden lady Understander teaching us our duty, life would be simpler.

But there are so many young gentlemen from College, so many maiden lady Understanders, on the job--if I may be permitted a vulgarism; and as yet they are not all agreed.

It is distracting for the parent anxious to do right.

We put the little dears into sandals, and then at once other young gentlemen from College, other maiden lady Understanders, point to us as would-be murderers.

Long clothes are fatal, short clothes are deadly, boots are instruments of torture, to allow children to go about with bare feet shows that we regard them as Incumbrances, and, with low cunning, are seeking to be rid of them.
Their first attempt.
I knew a pair of parents.