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Updated: June 4, 2025
In the old days, before the destruction of the white pines removed the chief source of American inventiveness the universal habit of whittling every boy had a jackknife, and also had boxes, sometimes of wood, sometimes of writing paper, in which he kept flies. Now he has neither flies nor jackknife. Then, when he wanted a fly, nine times out of ten he could catch one with a sweep of the hand.
"I told him 'No, sir-ee, I'd give him my ball, and velocipede, and jackknife, but not baby." This was the day before Miss Betsey came, straight and prim as usual, but with a different look on her face and tone in her voice from anything Neil had known, as she asked him how he was feeling, and them, sitting down beside him, began abruptly: "I say, Neil, why, don't you rouse yourself?
What broadness and good cheer and charity had been fostered in his sailor heart! The delight of little children with his clever tales and mysterious performances with bits of soft pine and a sharp jackknife, a very Baron Munchausen of adventure, and here he sat, round backed and head pushed forward like an old turtle, by the fire. The other men sat or stood about the low-walled room.
"How so?" "Why, I'll be turning honest. It seems to pay." "Um-m. Probably I'd better keep all this Nelson money and leave you " "Oh, not at all," the junior partner said, quickly. "That isn't an oil deal, strictly speaking, for you say there ain't oil enough on the land to grease a jackknife. I look on it as a real-estate speculation."
Finally, when his brain was beginning to reel with the heat, and his shoulders ached to numbness, the last strand parted. The sheriff dropped down to the ground to rest. Presently he drew out his jackknife and methodically cut the remaining bonds. It came to him suddenly, as he stood up, that someone might have seen this singular performance and carried the tale away for future laughter.
Out of long experience the young traveler had learned not to burden herself with too many things, but all her belongings had some pleasant associations: her button-hook was bought in Amsterdam, and a queer little silver box for buttons came from a village very far north in Norway, while a useful jackknife had been found in Spain, although it bore J. Crookes of Sheffield's name on the haft.
They frayed one end with a jackknife to make the torch. "Got a match?" Rick asked. Scotty looked at him blankly, then grinned. "No, have you?" "No match, no flint or steel, no ... hey, wait! I've got a pocket lens!" Rick's enthusiasm for microscopy had extended to the purchase of a twelve-power pocket lens to supplement the microscope Barby had given him.
All summer long Johnnie had kept his jackknife sharp as a razor, ready to carve his initials on Mr. Turtle's hard shell whenever the chance came. The knife was in his pocket. There was Mr. Turtle before him on the sand. And yet Johnnie was puzzled. Close at hand his captive looked fiercer than he had appeared at a distance, lying on a rock in the creek.
The lad calmly drew a big roll of bills from his pocket, placing it on the counter before the storekeeper. To the pile he added his watch, a jackknife, a bunch of keys and a silver matchbox. "Help yourself," he begged calmly. "Wha what?" gasped the storekeeper. "I said help yourself. I want that wall. I leave it to you to say what is a reasonable price for it a price fair to you and to me.
How heavy it was for such a small one, and how important looked the long row of stamps; and there was Uncle Obadiah's name in one corner, proving that it was truly the answer! There must be a jackknife in it, or something besides the dollar. He cut the stout twine, removed the wrapper, and lifted the cover of a strong paper box.
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