"I really must make myself a pair.

Well now--let me see--as soon as I have mended those two pairs--I can do them all to-morrow--I will begin.

And I'll tell you what," he added, after a thoughtful pause, "if you'll come to me the day after to-morrow, I will take that skin, and cut out a pair of shoes for myself, and you shall see how I do it, and everything about the making of them;--yes, you shall do some part of them yourself, and that shall be your first lesson in shoemaking." "But Dolly's shoes!" suggested Willie.
"Dolly can wait a bit.

She won't take _her_ death of cold from wet feet.
And let me tell you it is harder to make a small pair well than a large pair.

You will do Dolly's ever so much better after you know how to make a pair for me.".