the hearty laugh , just like the one he had emitted that day years before , when he had thanked the then young leather-worker shakespeare for fixing the leather thong for the smaller of the two siamese twins , the thong which , the little girl had said , hadnt arf rid up me crack shakespeare looked up the top of the stairs to see budsby still in his night attire , but now comically wearing his big hat , and twirling his silver-topped wooden cane .