RIVETED SHOES

AFTER we reached High Prairie, and Father decided to locate there, he went to The Dalles with Uncle Doc, to lay in supplies for winter. Among other things he was to get shoes for us children. He measured each child's foot with a piece of string to see how long it was, and that is how he determined the size.

We were delighted at the prospect of new shoes. We waited Father's return anxiously, but we were filled with consternation when we saw the shoes brought for us. They were fine for my brother, but we girls were disappointed and dismayed at their appearance. Wherever there was a seam, those shoes were riveted! We children had never seen such shoes and I was sure those rivets reached away into the shoe, and would scratch my feet, but they didn't and since we had no overshoes, the heavy shoes were more useful to us. And after all, riveted shoes were a good thing for one pair of shoes had to last us a year.

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