HIS FEET HIS FORTUNE.
The employment of two girls at Home by a shoe factory to test the products by daily walks recalls another strange job in which feet figured.. _ , The great Napoleon had in his employ a man whose foot was the exact fellow of his own, and who earned a handsome salary by wearing any new pairs of shoes or boots for twelve hours on end betore they risked rubbing the imperial foot.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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75HIS FEET HIS FORTUNE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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