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He looked rather down on his luck, so I gave him a job to mend up the barn. He's a handy fellow. I wonder he doesn't save more money. He's a careful chap, too. 'Careful, says Maddie. 'How do ye make that out? 'Why, says Jonathan, 'I'm dashed if he ain't got the same suit of clothes on he had when he was here three years ago. The old man didn't tumble, but both the girls burst out laughing.
"Nothing," said Bill, faintly; "have you got any whiskey handy?" Islington brought a decanter, and, pouring out some spirits, handed the glass to Bill. Bill drained it, and then said, "Who is Miss Masterman?" "Mr. Masterman's daughter; that is, an adopted daughter, I believe." "Wot name?" "I really don't know," said Islington, pettishly, more vexed than he cared to own at this questioning.
He proceeded to organize an execution against a handy wall, with one small person to enact the role of the condemned culprit and half a dozen others to make up the firing squad.
When Ethan drove into Hale's yard the builder was just getting out of his sleigh. "Hello, Ethe!" he said. "This comes handy." Andrew Hale was a ruddy man with a big gray moustache and a stubbly double-chin unconstrained by a collar; but his scrupulously clean shirt was always fastened by a small diamond stud.
Oh, I do wish we had bought Magglin's gun. It is such a handy one. You see we could keep it up in the loft, and take it to pieces and bring it out without any one knowing, and shoot our own birds to stuff." "Mustn't shoot partridges. They're game," I said. "Oh, I don't know," he replied. "We shouldn't want them to eat, only to stuff, and Hallo, look there!
I'm not that sort, old man. And you're handy, anyway; I've been shipmates with worse." "God knows I can't refuse," said Herrick. "God knows I thank you from my heart." "That's all right," said the captain. "But it ain't all." He turned aside to light a cigar. "What else is there?" asked the other, with a pang of undefinable alarm. "I'm coming to that," said Davis, and then paused a little.
The girl, they told me, was delicate. `Get straw, hay, branches anything soft, I shouted, `an' pile 'em under the window. "`Him's too weak for jump, gasped a native servant. "`Do as I bid ye, said I, with a glare that sent 'em all off double-quick. Happily I found a rope handy in a storehouse hard by. I made a coil of it. You know a seaman can usually heave a coil of rope pretty well.
But science has never once thought of what axe or what hatchet is the most profitable to chop with, what saw is the most handy, what is the best way to mix bread, from what flour, how to set it, how to build and heat an oven, what food and drink, and what utensils, are the most convenient and advantageous under certain conditions, what mushrooms may be eaten, how to propagate them, and how to prepare them in the most suitable manner.
"Nary one, eh?" he repeated musingly. "Well, when you see one you'll see a million that's been my experience. But say, Rufe, why don't you come and ride with the boys once in a while? The rodéo has been goin' rotten this year we ain't gittin' half of 'em and you'd come in mighty handy. Besides, I've been braggin' you up to Miss Bonnair." He dropped this last as a bait, but Hardy did not respond.
The door was very strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used; and the locksmith was near despair. But this last was a handy fellow, and after two hours' work, the door stood open.
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