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in New England are, having not changed their nature in this, be- 

 tween them both they have kept men to their stand hitherto, al- 

 most doubling the price of their commodities, according to the 

 rate they were sold in England, and yet the plenty of leather is 

 beyond what they had there, counting the number of the people. 

 But the transportation of boots and shoes into foreign parts hath 

 vented all, however." 



Inasmuch as this was written only a year after Dagyr's arrival 

 at Lynn, it is pretty safe to set Mr. Johnson down as something of 

 an optimist. But it points to the immediate impetus the industry 

 received under the latter's hand. Yet, by a strange irony, Dagyr, 

 who did so much to establish the shoemaker's art in this country, 



Fir,. 4. Parts of a Button Shoe. 1, Large quarter; 2, vamp; 3, small quarter; 4, button 

 piece; 5, drill lining; 6, glove button-piece lining; 7, heel lining stay; 8, button stay; 

 9, top stay; 10, heel stiflener; 11, sole lining; 12, inner sole; 13, outer sole: 14, heel 

 lifts (six); 15, steel shank; 16, rand. 



died in the Essex County almshouse. The principal part of the work 

 at that time was done in little, one-story shops. The rooms were 

 scarcely more than a dozen feet square, with windows at sides and 

 end and a broad fireplace in one corner. They were good-natured, 

 industrious, thrifty companies that filled those shops. Fishermen 

 and farmers and those trained " to the last " were all represented. 

 Journeyman and apprentice, master and workman, stood on the 

 same footing and shared alike. These shops stand, economically 

 and mechanically, between the home and the factory. Shoes were 



