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Besides the sack of nets, the bag of ferrets, and a small bundle in a knotted handkerchief his 'nuncheon' which in themselves make a tolerable load, he has brought a billhook, and a 'navigator, or draining-tool.
He is six feet two in height how he manages to stow himself in his berth it is hard to say, but it is supposed that he doubles his legs back, for as to coiling away his body, that would be impossible. The master, old Billhook, is a rough diamond, but he understands navigation, and spins tough yarns by the score; I'll tell you some of them one of these days.
Winterborne explained just as briefly, without raising his eyes from his occupation of chopping a bough that he held in front of him. "'Twill be up in April before you get it all cleared," said Melbury. "Yes, there or thereabouts," said Winterborne, a chop of the billhook jerking the last word into two pieces.
At last he had worked himself so high up the elm, and the mist had so thickened, that he could only just be discerned as a dark-gray spot on the light-gray sky: he would have been altogether out of notice but for the stroke of his billhook and the flight of a bough downward, and its crash upon the hedge at intervals. It was not to be done thus, after all: plainness and candor were best.
While with every stroke the bill took on form and semblance, growing more and more into what a billhook should be. "A good thick steak, I think you said, Anna?" enquired the Tinker, while I blew the fire for the next heat. "And fried onions, Jerry." "Steak an' onions!" he exclaimed, rolling his eyes ecstatically. "Did ye hear that, Perry?
The hands are gloved in leather mits with no fingers; in them the hedger holds his light, sharp billhook, shaped much like the knife of the forest tribes of Southern India. When a whole fence has to be relaid the art of "hedge carpentry" is exhibited in its perfection.
Oh, she doesn't know there's such a tree on her estate. Besides, shrouding is not felling, and I'll risk that much." He went out, and when afternoon came he returned, took a billhook from the woodman's shed, and with a ladder climbed into the lower part of the tree, where he began lopping off "shrouding," as they called it at Hintock the lowest boughs.
"We bain't a-goin' to pass Widder Hotchkiss, be we, governor?" demanded Joseph, who saw through the device. His lordship decided not to hear the question, and walked on a little ahead, swinging the billhook and the saw. Joseph Beaker revolved in his mind his own plan of action. In front of Widow Hotchkiss's cottage the trees were unusually luxuriant, and the boughs hung unusually low.
"We must not run the risk of starving," observed Commander Olding; "and in the course of a couple of months, if we do not get off, I will allow you, Foley, or Mr Billhook to try and make your way, as you propose, to Jamaica."
"The fellow wishes to show us that he can give as good as he can take," said the master. "I wonder, since he has got so many teeth, he ran from us in the fashion he did before." "Perhaps they were not as well sharpened as they are now," remarked the doctor, chuckling at his own wit. "If we get alongside we'll either draw them or knock them down his throat," answered Mr Billhook.
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