Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1885 — A Boston Bean Story. [ARTICLE]

A Boston Bean Story.

A Florida youth who bought a pair of shoes without trying them on found on reaching home that they were just an eighth of an inch too small all around. He thought, however, that he would enlarge them sufficiently by the “bean” process, so he filled each shoe to the top with large white beans —the variety that swell nearly double their size—gave them all the water they would hold, and left them over night to the mercy of ,the beans. In the morning he found that they had increased in size from No. 5 to apparently No. 8, and that the uppers had raised up on one side, exposing a huge crevice and allowing the beans to escape for several feet around. The next time he will pare down his feet.— Boston J ournal.