Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1898 — DAVY’S SHOES. [ARTICLE]

DAVY’S SHOES.

A Few Statistics Concerning Them, Contributed by Davy’s Father. “I take no note of time,” said Mr. Toggleton, according to the New York Sun. “I can count the months with perfect certainty by the calls for shoes for Davy. All I want to know is the date of the purchase of one pair. Say, for illustration, that we buy shoes on May 15; then when the next call is made for shoes I know, without looking at the date line in the paper, or at the calendar in the office,'that it is the 15th of June; for Davy wears out just one pair of shoes a month. “He goes through the first soles in two weeks, and the second in two weeks more. Occasionally we have his shoes resoled twice, but not often. Usually, when we come to look them over, after the second sole has been worn through, we find them in that state of ruin that is commonly described in the phrase ‘beyond repair.’ “There is, however, one cheering feature of this situation, and that is the unparalleled cheapness of shoes, which never begun to be so cheap as now. But for this auspicious fact, at the rate that Davy wears out shoes, I should have to move to some warm clime, where small boys run unshod.”