She could hear him pulling off his boots on the bootjack.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
"Now I 'clar' for't," said Milly, "if here ain't Marster John's bootjack, fish-line, and box of tobacky, right out in far sight, and Miss Mabel comin' in here to sleep.
"'Lena Rivers"
Mary J. Holmes
I approbate your notion; it's as correct as a bootjack.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton