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The magical property of the Brown Brogue Shoes.
The Brown Shoes
On that marvellously warm summer of 1960, my father entered
a shoe shop on the high street in Port Stewart, Northern
Ireland. After viewing a selection on display, his eyes
caught a pair of brown brogue shoes. They were his size. He
tried them on and with a smile brought them to the counter
to pay for them.
As the shop keeper packed the shoes neatly into the shoe
box, he said to my father in his local accent “Here’s
health tae wear them.”
Now this was not an expression known in Scotland although
it may have been well known in Ulster. Nevertheless it
became a family saying every time my father wore these
brown shoes.
Many years later Dad began to suffer a few minor
discomforts. There was the blitheritis to begin with. Then
came the diverticulosus. My father never seemed to suffer
simply an eye irritation or indigestion. There was always
some mystical medical nomenclature available.
It was not a medical cure which came to the rescue for such
ailments. It was his brown brogue shoes.
Now some would say that it was in the fresh air and
exercise that the brown shoes provided, that cured his
ailments. But there are others like me who really know the
secret of the brown shoes. It was health to wear them.
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