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He was in thorough sympathy with all the whims and humors of the old man, and his capacity for enjoying them was large enough to include even those he could not understand. Uncle Remus was finishing an axe-handle, and upon these occasions it was his custom to allow the child to hold one end while he applied sand-paper to the other.
Farther down the glacier he came to a level stretch, and began to walk with greater speed, neglecting for a little the precaution of driving the end of his axe-handle into the snow in front at each step. The result was, that he stepped suddenly on the snow that concealed a narrow crevasse. It sank at once, sending something like a galvanic shock through his frame.
Certainly those eyes met hers boldly rather than fearlessly. She extended her hand. He took it, and with an effort gave it the politician's squeeze the squeeze that makes Hiram Hanks and Bill Butts grin delightedly and say to each other: "B'gosh, he ain't lost his axe-handle grip yet, by a durn sight, has he? dog-gone him!" Madam Bowker did not wince, though she felt like it.
Red Wull had leapt on to the table, and in his cavernous voice was grumbling a chorus to his master's yells. The little man danced up and down, tugging and straining at the axe-handle. "You and I, Wullie! 'Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow!" The axe-head was as immoveable as the Muir Pike. "'Let us do or die!" The shaft snapped, and the little man tottered back.
When they halted, the dogs dropped down as though they had all been struck dead. Mercedes dried her eyes and looked at John Thornton. Charles sat down on a log to rest. He sat down very slowly and painstakingly what of his great stiffness. Hal did the talking. John Thornton was whittling the last touches on an axe-handle he had made from a stick of birch.
The sneak-box is not a monopoly of any particular builder, but it requires peculiar talent to build one, the kind of talent which enables one man to cut out a perfect axe-handle, while the master- carpenter finds it difficult to accomplish the same thing.
On returning to the spot they found an arctic fox in his last gasp, lying flat on the snow, with the heavy log across his back, which seemed to be broken. A slight tap on the snout with the accountant's deadly axe-handle completed its destruction. "We're in luck to-night," cried Harry, as he kneeled again to reset the trap.
'Three persons; she is there, too! The sleigh had now reached very near the roadside; and one of the men jumped out to open the gate. 'You attend to him, the Chief whispered to Joe; 'you gag the girl's mouth with this handkerchief, to The Lifter; 'Come. The robbers rushed out and Murfrey felled his man to the ground with a blow of his axe-handle.
"Good," said Grettir; "but, howsoever that went, thou at least shall never throttle me." Then Skeggi got at his axe and hewed at Grettir; when Grettir saw that, he caught the axe-handle with the left hand bladeward of Skeggi's hand, so hard that straightway was the axe loosed from his hold.
I felt somewhat pleased with my return shot, though I took pains not to show it. I squinted along my hickory stick which was even then beginning to assume, rudely, the outlines of an axe-handle. I had made a prodigious pile of fine white shavings and I was tired, but quite suddenly there came over me a sort of love for that length of wood.
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