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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Lost a rupee, did she? Lucky young thing. Wish I had one to lose. Who showed you how to hold that sword? Why do you crook your fingers round the cross-piece like that?" "Chucko laid me an egg latht night," observed Damocles. "He laid it with my name on it so that cook couldn't steal it." "No doubt. Look here, where can I get a sword like yours? Where can I copy it? Who makes them?
He had nailed a cross-piece on this, so that it resembled the letter T, and was now laboriously boring holes and fitting in pegs, that Elsie might have a sort of closet behind her bed. As for the rustic furniture, the girls and boys declared it to be too beautiful for words.
While the fat and wax were melting in a couple of "billies," he cut down the canes into sections of about six inches each, and buried them on end with the mouth up in soft ground near the bath, with a length of stout cord strung down the centre of each tube, and secured by a cross-piece. When the stuff had melted, he filled up the moulds, twelve in all, and left them to cool off.
Two oaken poles are driven into the ground about a foot and a half from each other. Each pole has in the side facing the other a socket into which a cross-piece as thick as a man's arm is fitted. The sockets are stuffed with linen, and the cross-piece is rammed in as tight as possible, while the poles are bound together at the top by ropes.
A hole had been punched through the centre of the lid of a tobacco tin and a number of others round the edge. Round this cross-piece the first two fingers of the boy's right hand were crooked as he held the sword and this is the one and only correct way of holding the Italian weapon, as the Major was well aware! "I give it most utterly-uppermost," he murmured. "It's positively uncanny.
"The flume must be broken just below here!" cried Jack. "We must stop or we'll be killed!" He made a desperate effort to grasp a brace. He got his fingers on one. Then came a sudden rush of water, caused by a sharp decline in the level of the sluiceway, and Jack was torn from the cross-piece. At the same time his plank was swept from under him, and he was buried in an overwhelming rush of water.
For ordinary work a rough paddle made from iron-wood is generally used; the blade and shaft are of one piece; the flat blade, nearly two feet in length, is widest about six inches below its junction with the shaft, and from this point tapers slightly to its square extremity; the shaft is about three feet in length and carries, morticed to its upper end, a cross-piece for the grip of the upper hand.
The couple take up their pose in the form of a T. The male, standing perpendicularly, or nearly, represents the cross-piece and the female the shaft of the letter, lying on its side.
At a convenient place, a palisade had been sawed off, so low in the ground that the sods, which had been cut and were moveable, concealed the injury, while the heads of the pins that ought to have bound the timber to the cross-piece, were in their holes, leaving everything apparently secure.
The ingenuity which is part of the multiform basis of the American nature was aroused. "How're you going to keep them from slipping, if you tie them together like that?" he asked, when Paddy had more fully explained his method. "Which from slippin'?" "The canes one from the other?" "After you've fixed thim, one cross t'other, you drive a nail through the cross-piece and a rope over all."
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