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Updated: June 15, 2025
'This day at dawn, Poins answered, and cursed again. 'Drunk or sober? 'Drunk as a channel codfish. The old woman came, a sheaf of jack-knives in her arms, muttering along the table. 'Get you to bed, she croaked. 'I will not ha' warmed new sheets for thee, and thee not use them. Get thee to bed. Throckmorton pushed her back, and caught the boy by the jacket near the throat.
About the little porch were carved initials and dates, at various heights, from the stature of nine to that of eighteen. Inside were old unpainted desks, unpainted, but browned with the umber of human contact, and hacked by innumerable jack-knives.
Meantime we swap jack-knives. Observe, my son, with how austere a virtue the man without a cent puts aside the temptation to manipulate the market or acquire a monopoly. For study of the good and the bad in woman two women are a needless expense. "There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must."
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.
Everybody knows now that it can live through the worst that can come to it. Let's see, it's twenty years since I planted it there, and I've won twenty jack-knives betting that it would live, twenty different winters. Twenty years! Sally, that's a good while, my honey. Why, twenty years ago you didn't come knee-high to a puddle-duck. We had just moved down here from St.
I was brought up on axes, and jack-knives, and sich sort of food, and can cut OR whittle with the best chopper, or the neatest whittler, in or out of New England." "You can try your hand, if you wish it," said Ben, relinquishing the axe. "I can fell a tree as well as yourself, but have no such love for the business as to wish to keep it all to myself."
Here, I tell you what: you go into the city to-morrow, and buy him one of the best, and biggest, and strongest jack-knives you can find; one of those with a steel loop so that it can hang handily from a lanyard, ready for any purpose from cutting his breakfast to hacking a way through the canes, or skinning a wild beast. You could not give him a better present than that."
He did not propose to swap horses or watches or jack-knives, but he would swap ideas with you day in and day out. If you had no ideas to swap, he lost interest in you.
The great barn with its huge beams and fragrant mows of hay the sparkling brook whose shining shallows bathed my naked feet the broad meadow with its fence corners of luscious berries the old schoolhouse, whose desks are impressed with generations of jack-knives! Was there ever so sweet a draught as that which we drew from the shining depths of the old well?
Even Sam, fearing he might be left out, promptly offered the peaceful olive-branch in the shape of a big apple, warm from his pocket, and Mose proposed a trade of jack-knives which would be greatly to Ben's advantage. But Thorny made the noblest sacrifice of all, for he said to his sister, as they walked home together, "I'm not going to try for the prize at all.
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