A tall, bald-headed old man with a red nose, wearing a dressing gown and with galoshes on his bare feet, stood in the anteroom.
Makar Alexeevich came twice that evening shuffling along in his galoshes as far as the door and stopped and looked ingratiatingly at Pierre.
"I must tell you," said she, "that to-day is my birthday; and in honor of it, a pair of walking-shoes or
galoshes has been entrusted to me, which I am to carry to mankind.
Suppose Fraulein Wundermacher should pounce upon me suddenly from behind, coming up noiselessly in her galoshes, and shatter my castles with her customary triumphant "Fetzt halte ich dich aber fest!" Why, what was I thinking of?
Come in at once to your lessons!" Or, at a different period, "Ou etes-vous donc, petite sotte?" Or at yet another period, "Warte nur, wenn ich dich erst habe!" As the voices came round one corner, I whisked in my noiseless clothes round the next, and it was only Fraulein Wundermacher, a person of resource, who discovered that all she needed for my successful circumvention was galoshes. She purchased a pair, wasted no breath calling me, and would come up silently, as I stood lapped in a false security lost in the contemplation of a squirrel or a robin, and seize me by the shoulders from behind, to the grievous unhinging of my nerves.
No one had heard him, and Konstantin, taking off his
galoshes, listened to what the gentleman in the jerkin was saying.
"If you will give me five minutes to fetch my mackintosh and
galoshes, it would interest me to see whether I have profited by the lessons I took in Scotland."
When one stormy day turns into two with no end in sight, a brother and sister don their
galoshes and head out to search for the biggest puddle in the world -- the source of all precipitation.
"
Galoshes" are what my dad wore on his feet to protect his Allen Edmonds from sloppy weather.
It may also have come from women who did not lace up their
galoshes, and let them "flap" around.
One of the kindergarten teachers from that time, Alma Bunch, remembers that her class at South Beaver School consisted of 46 students whose winter dress ranged from little coats and little
galoshes to old blankets.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTIONS WEE THINKER ACROSS: 7 Spinach 9 Amigo 10 Stain 11 Rooster 12 Ali 13 Brighton 16 Rummages 17 Elf 19 Chorizo 21 Abhor 22 Adult 23 Explain DOWN: 1 As usual 2 Tiramisu 3 Yawn 4
Galoshes 5 Kilt 6 Gourd 8 Herringbone 13 Bump into 14 Overhear 15 Affront 18 Scrap 20 Onus 21 Amps QUICKIE ACROSS: 1 Weathercock 8 Sam 9 Rap 11 Triceps 12 Drill 13 Ant 14 Bee 15 Hairnet 17 Tab 19 West 21 Alec 23 Lion 25 Lone 27 Dim 29 Overall 31 Pat 34 Add 36 Scent 37 Tickled 38 Era 39 Say 40 Embrocation DOWN: 1 Warn 2 Emit 3 Teenage 4 Ensure 5 Cadge 6 Crib 7 Kale 8 Start 10 Pleat 16 Two 18 Ban 20 End 22 Leo 8DA followed 24 Illicit 25 Lapse 26 Critic 28 Muddy 30 Voter 32 Acre 33 Team 34 Also 35 Dean