Grandpa’s Boot

When grandson Mikey was almost three years old, one day he was looking at a catalogue of pictures of shoes and boots, and brought it over to show me a picture of a boot he said was like Grandpa’s boot. As the picture of a sporty boot didn’t look at all like Grandpa’s cowboy boot, I told him I didn’t think they really looked alike. He insisted and insisted, convincing me he was basing his comparison on some specific fact.

He headed downstairs in the townhouse to get one of Grandpa’s boots. I followed. When we got to the boot, he pointed out the flower-like design of stitching across the horizontal top of the boot, just like that on the boot in the catalogue. Then we returned upstairs, taking the boot to show Grandpa.

After our praising him for his keen power of observation, and without his being told to do so, Mikey took Grandpa’s boot back downstairs and placed it where he found it. What a dear little guy he was.

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