The Patter

A guide explaining to two visitors the watching eyes and apparent change of stance of Bastien--Lepage's country lad ("pas Meche" is the title).

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/b/artist/jules-bastien-lepage

His boots are on the wrong wau. The guide said an old lady had told him this is what poor children did who had to wear an older sibling's boots. With thick socks for reduced paonful shoogling about in them, i think.