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Updated: May 11, 2025
There's a habit there that is better suited to the woods than the one you have." "Oh!" she cried, her grey eyes alight with laughter, and a little flush in her cheeks. "You brought it along then?" "I put it in your pack, because I knew that two days of trail in the forest would reduce your present costume to shreds." She eyed the hussif distastefully. "I hate sewing," she said.
He also talks about a "hussif" and a "cold chisel." A cold chisel is apparently the ordinary sort of chisel which you chisel with; what a hot chisel is I never discovered. But whether one calls them "bellows" or "bellus," in these days one cannot do without them. They are as necessary to a wood fire as a poker is to a coal fire, and they serve much the same purpose.
By some mysterious means she had effected great improvement in her appearance. Yet there were manifest gaps. "If only I had a needle and thread " she began. "If that is all," said the sailor, fumbling in his pockets. He produced a shabby little hussif, containing a thimble, scissors, needles and some skeins of unbleached thread.
Spare yourself the misery of discovering in the hearty, fleshy Lincolnshire hussif the decay of the promises of years ago; be content to do reverence to the ideal Fiammetta who has built her little shrine in your sympathetic heart!"
"You fool!" he whispered to himself. "You fool!" A moment later the girl entered the tent again. In her hand she carried a rather decrepit hussif and a hank of strong linen thread. She held them down for him to see. "I am making free with your possessions, Mr. Stane, but there's no help for it. I simply must repair these rags of mine."
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