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He was a tough character, and regarded as one of the worse than worthless young men of Gridley. Tip was a handy fellow, a jack-of-all-trades, with several at which he might have made an honest living -but he wouldn't. Yet Tip's father was old John Scammon, the highly respected janitor at the High School, where he had served for some forty years.

Griffin's glass cutter, which contains a hardened steel wheel, like that on any ordinary window-glass cutter, and a device by which this can be made to make a true cut clear around the tube, is a very handy article, especially for large tubing, and may be obtained from any dealers in chemical apparatus.

As he could no longer conveniently throw the earth from the hole he took a "skep" or leaf basket, which lay handy, and, placing it beside him, put as much of the sandy soil as he could carry into it, and then lifting shot it on the edge of the pit. For three-quarters of an hour he laboured thus most manfully, till at last he came down on the stonework.

He does it of his own will; I don't like a boy to be too handy about the house." "He seems like a nice kid." "He's very obedient." Nils smiled a little in the dark. It was just as well to shift the line of conversation. "What are you knitting there, Mother?" "Baby stockings. The boys keep me busy." Mrs. Ericson chuckled and clicked her needles. "How many grandchildren have you?"

Mr Tremayne invited the inmates of the cottage to come down and see it. "What do you think of her?" he asked, after they had greeted the two ladies. "She is a handy craft, sir, and just suited for this place," answered Michael. "I hope you will find her so," replied Mr Tremayne.

"I don't mind," said the elder brother, and looked about for a handy tool. And that led to another dreadful bother. Agitated multitudes were at them in no time, telling them for a thousand reasons to stop, telling them to stop for no reason at all babbling, confused, and varied multitudes. The place they were building was too high it couldn't possibly be safe.

The big tent was raised in better shape than could be done in their hurry of the preceding evening. Then all their stock was gone over, some of it placed securely away in the covered wagon until needed, and the rest kept handy for immediate use. A dozen different artifices were carried through, each intended to make things more comfortable and handy.

For to three and twenty English and American publishers, whose names he culled from a handy work of reference, he advanced a business-like offer to prepare for the press a volume "of 316 pages printed in type about the same size as enclosed," and to be entitled: MY WILD LIFE AMONGST CANNIBALS. AUGUSTUS TIBBETTS, Lieutenant of Houssas.

Irritated at the general ineptitude, Pierce finally took hold of things and in a short time had made all snug for the night. Lights were glowing in the tents when he found his way through the gloom to the landing in search of his own belongings. Seated on the gunwale of a skiff he discovered Laure. "I've been watching you," she said. "You're a handy man." He nodded.

In his quality of expert he knew that there are statements which, whether true or false, may come in handy and, comfortably, he smiled. "So that was the reason why the engagement was broken." "What more would you have?" replied the candid creature, who now felt that he had swallowed it. Quite as comfortably, Paliser returned to his muttons. "I may cease then to be an epicure?"