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The following is told by one of the Normal students of her work in the country schools: "Mothers' clubs were formed and fathers were interested so far as possible in order to secure the sympathy and co-operation of the parents in introducing industrial work. "The tools were crude. In many instances jack-knives, stones and glass were used if hammers, planes and saws could not be obtained.
Hence some evolve a special faculty for money-making and, as schoolboys, will be expert traders of alley-taws, jack-knives, toffee and all sorts of kickshaws. Others of another bent or list will traffic in knowledge to the abounding satisfaction of their masters and the jealous pride of their form.
Between Victory Point and Cape Felix they found some things in a small cask near the salt water. In a monument that he did not take down, he found between the stones five jack-knives and a pair of scissors, also a small flat piece of tin, now lost; saw no graves at this place, but found what, from his description of the way the handle was put on, was either an adze or a pickaxe.
There were pen-knives, and jack-knives, and clasp-knives, and dirk-knives, horn and wooden combs, calicoes and clocks, and tin-ware and garden seeds; everything, indeed, without regard to fitness of association, which it was possible to sell in the region to which he was going.
'The wail of the toys' that's what I called it had the toys tell the story, ye know, all the kites an' jack-knives an' balls an' bats that he's fixed for the boys all these years, an' how bad they felt because he couldn't do it any more. Like this, ye know: 'Oh, woe is me, said the baseball bat, Oh, woe is me, said the kite. 'T was real pretty, if I do say it, an' touchy, too."
The resentment against herself was tugging away at her heart and drawing miserable lines on her brow and lips on her sweet brow and happy lips. It was a bare, ugly country schoolroom, anyway, with the stained floor, the windows with two broken panes, and the unpainted desks with innumerable scars made by the boys' jack-knives, and Mr.
"Spun yarn?" he said sharply. "Plenty, sir." "But you lads never thought to give your jack-knives a whet, I'll be bound." Joe Cross turned to the crew. "Show knives, lads!" he shouted. "The skipper wants to try them all on his beard." "Steady!" growled the skipper. "That's right, then. Well, Mr Rodd," he continued, "I suppose everything's all right.
It was as if we had stumbled upon an ancient cupboard in some dusky corner, and rummaged out a heap of childish playthings tin soldiers and torn story-books, jack-knives and Chinese puzzles. This is what we remembered between us.
Then a third man came right in the same door and said, "Do you keep jack-knives?" "No. Why is every one around here asking for jack-knives? Do you suppose we are keeping this store to supply the whole neighborhood with jack-knives?" Do you carry on your store like that in Philadelphia?
Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business. But, in general, they toil with their jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor, they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner's fancy.
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