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Updated: June 26, 2025
Rhoda loved her flowers and tended them faithfully. Chrif did not care much for flowers. He preferred to sail boats. He would cut them out of wood with his jack-knife, and load them with stones and grass. Then he would send the boats down the little stream that flowed past the old red house. "This ship is going to India," he would say to Rhoda.
Weary looked up from whittling a notch in the end of a platform plank and closed his jack-knife languidly. Andy pushed his hat backward and then tilted it forward over one eyebrow and threw away his cigarette. "Wonder if Florence Grace will be riding point on the bunch?" he speculated aloud. "If she is, I'm liable to have my hands full.
I was so cramped from long hours, cold, and wet, in the constrained position one was forced to assume on top of the gear and stores at the tiller, that the other men had to pull me amidships and straighten me out like a jack-knife, first rubbing my thighs, groin, and stomach.
"You see," said Alan with a sigh, pushing over the papers to Barbara, who read them carefully one by one. "I see," she answered presently. "It is war to the knife. Alan, I hate the idea of it, but perhaps you had better go away. While you are here they will harass the life out of you." Meanwhile with the aid of a big jack-knife and the dining-room poker, Jeekie had prized off the lid of the box.
Come to figure it up, it is about an even thing, sis, isn't it? There has got to be a law passed to punish the hardware dealers for selling those step ladders that shut up like a jack-knife. A Ninth Street woman got onto one the other afternoon when it looked as though there was going to be a frost, to take her ivies down and carry them in the house.
Then there came a great laugh of thunder close above, and the black cloud dropped like a curtain round us: the squall had broken. "Cut it off, Dan! quick!" I cried. "Let it alone," said he, snapping together his jack-knife; "it's as good as a best bower-anchor. Now I'll take the tiller, Georgie. Strong little hand," said he, bending so that I didn't see his face. "And lucky it's good as strong.
The jolts jerked the rider forward and back like a jack-knife without a spring. He went flying over the head of the bronco to the ground. The animal, red-eyed with hate, lunged for the helpless puncher. A second time Billie's rope snaked forward. The loop fell true over the head of the gelding, tightened, and swung the outlaw to one side so that his hoofs missed the Irishman.
My surmises never ventured to the hazardous period of infancy, or risked the doubtful thought that kith or kin could have loved him; but I have often wondered if there ever was a time when his rapacity found employment in the robbing of a hen's nest, or his grasping ambition culminated in the swop of a jack-knife.
The "jack-knife dive" is made from the back-diving position by springing up in the air, doubling the body up from the waist, and throwing the legs up behind, trying to enter the water as clean as possible facing the springboard. The "dolphin dive" is the straight front dive, only the body must be turned sharply in the air from front to back.
But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
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