The shoemaker : $b A powerful picture of nature, adapted from Hal Reid's famous drama of the same name

· 1915

This brief preamble brings the reader to the day and hour when the first movements in this moving human drama began. Morris Goldberg had left his humble store in charge of Dora and a little semi-idiotic boy, whom he had rescued from the streets. The little fellow was thin and white, and dressed in a medley of garments purchased for him from a second-hand store nearby. The child was trying to sew a shoe while seated upon the vacant bench. Dora sat beside him, trying to guide the clumsy fingers, with infinite patience.…

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