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Man In The High-Water Boots, by F. Hopkinson Smith
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Title: The Man In The High-Water Boots 1909
Author: F. Hopkinson Smith
Release Date: December 3, 2007 [EBook #23701]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH-WATER BOOTS
By F. Hopkinson Smith
1909
Now and then in my various prowlings I have met a man with a personality; one with mental equipment, heart endowment, self-forgetfulness, and charm--the kind of charm that makes you glad when he comes and sorry when he goes.
One was a big-chested, straight-backed, clear-eyed, clean-souled sea-dog, with arms of hickory, fingers of steel, and a brain in instant touch with a button marked "Experience and Pluck." Another was a devil-may-care, barefooted Venetian, who wore a Leporello hat canted over one eye and a scarlet sash about his thin, shapely waist, and whose corn teeth gleamed and flashed as he twisted his mustache or threw kisses to the pretty bead-stringers crossing Ponte Lungo. Still a third was a little sawed-off, freckled-faced, red-headed Irishman, who drove a cab through London fogs in winter, poled my punt among the lily-pads in summer, and hung wall-paper between times.
These I knew