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"I don't know," returned the other mournfully, stirring up the contents of the desk as though he were making a Christmas pudding. "I've got nothing, except well, there's this book of Poe's, 'Tales of Adventure, Mystery, and Imagination, and my clasp-knife; and perhaps some one would buy these fret-saw patterns or this dog-chain."
It now remains only to go over the whole box with glass paper or emery cloth, and to glue a diamond of coarse glass paper to one end for striking the matches on. The bottom of the box is made of 5/16 or 3/8 inch wood, cut to an oval or elliptical shape. Fret-saw along the line. The wood strip for the side is 4-1/2 inches deep, and 1-1/2 inches longer than the circumference of the bottom.
Then she always brought back some little thing: a small tube of paints for Paul, or some thick paper; a couple of postcards for Annie, that the whole family rejoiced over for days before the girl was allowed to send them away; or a fret-saw for Arthur, or a bit of pretty wood. She described her adventures into the big shops with joy. Soon the folk in the picture-shop knew her, and knew about Paul.
It was long, and all the blade, which was very thick and heavy, was to within a quarter of an inch of the cutting edge worked into an ornamental pattern exactly as we work soft wood with a fret-saw, the steel, however, being invariably pierced in such a way as not to interfere with the strength of the sword. 'There, said Mr Mackenzie, 'did you ever see a sword like that?
Ruskin says that any man who wears a tartan tie will, without doubt, be damned everlastingly." "Bravo, McTurk," said Tertius; "I thought he was only a beast." "He's that, too, of course, but he's worse. He has a china basket with blue ribbons and a pink kitten on it, hung up in his window to grow musk in. Well, King came in and wanted to know whether we'd done it with a fret-saw! Yah!
Above this wood a sharp, orange red streak now seemed to slash through the monotony of the landscape like a gaping wound. The sun was sinking. The dark, still and motionless wood seemed to keep watch and ward over the young man's path, above this the flame colored band, against which the separate treetops were outlined as if a fret-saw had cut them out of the brilliant background.
"It's likely to be when the fret-saw slips." Vane strolled into the ballroom and glanced round, but there was no sign of Joan; and then he saw that there was another, smaller, room leading off the principal one where dancing seemed to be in progress also. He walked towards it, and as he came to the door he stopped abruptly and his eyes narrowed.
When I was a little girl he used to make all sorts of pretty things for me with his fret-saw; and when I grew old enough, he instructed me in the balance of Power. It's possible, mamma, that he writes leading articles. We should never hear of it. 'My dear, anything is possible with Mr. Tymperley. And such a change, this, after his country life.
The drummer drew a long applausive rattle from his side-drum; the trombone player sawing the air with his instrument, as with a fret-saw, evoked noises not to be described. In the midst of this general mirth while Cai stood his ground, red to the ears, and Mrs Bosenna plucked nervously at the tassel of her sunshade 'Bias came thrusting forward, shouldering his way through the press.
When you have done your tasks for school, you take riding lessons or work with the fret-saw, and even in the long vacation on the seashore your time is taken up with rowing, sailing, and swimming; while I lie lost in idle thought on the sand, staring at the mysteriously changing expressions that flit over the countenance of the sea. And that is why your eyes are so clear. To be like you." ...
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