The Knickerbocker

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 1, July 1837

told. After waiting several minutes, and eliciting no glance from his master, he raised his heavy foot, and placed it impressively on mine. It rested on _the_ very spot! It was not in human nature to bear this unmoved. I withdrew the distressed member, with a convulsive twitch...