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Updated: September 4, 2025
A bearded hunchback reached his long arm to a sack that hung under our rifles, drew out a chuck of salt pork, and began slicing it with his jackknife. Four dogs growled at each other under a long bunk of poles and hay that spanned one side of our cabin. The fire glared out upon the middle of an unfloored and windowless room.
Having listened attentively to the statement of Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasional grunt, as he shoveled a spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth, either as a sign that he relished the dish, or comprehended the story, he called unto him his constable, and pulling out of his breeches-pocket a huge jackknife, dispatched it after the defendant as a summons, accompanied by his tobacco-box as a warrant.
When I see you begin to shut yourself together in the middle like a jackknife and start swinging that number eleven of yours I know you're thinkin' hard about somethin' or other. What is it this time?" "Um . . . well . . . er . . . Sam, if you saw a chance to get a real smart young feller in Lute's place in the bank you'd take him, wouldn't you?" "Would I? Would a cat eat lobster?
When I went hunting I was careful to take a piece of this with me. With this, a flint and a jackknife I could make a fire in case night overtook me in the woods and I could not get out. Fire was our greatest protection from wild animals and cold in the night.
He stood at the one space that was kept cleared on his counter, hairy fists on the brown, hacked plank the notches of the yard-stick and fathom-stick cut with a jackknife on its edge his pale eyes sparkling as he talked. "There she wallered," went on the narrator of maritime disaster, "her cargo held together by rotting sheathing and straining ribs.
He traveled in all the martial splendor of his full scout regalia, his duffel bag stuffed to capacity with his aluminum cooking set and two extra scout suits. His diminutive but compact and sturdy little form was decorated with his scout jackknife hanging from his belt, his compass dangling from his neck, and his belt ax dragging down his belt in back.
So that was the reason why Johnnie Green was glad to see Daddy just at that time. Having lost his new jackknife, Johnnie was determined that Daddy should tell him where to find it. "Now, you listen to me!" Johnnie commanded, frowning severely at Daddy. "I've dropped my knife somewhere and you must point towards it if you want me to let you go.
Scattergood slapped Peaney on the back. He laughed. He acted like a boy with a new jackknife. "It's all mine now, hain't it? Mine? Fair and square? It's my money every penny of it?" "It's yours, Mr. Baines. And I congratulate you. I myself have made a matter of fifty thousand dollars." "Wisht I'd put up every cent I got.... But there'll be other chances, won't they? I kin git in ag'in?"
Grace and Susy had got their baskets nearly half full, and Prudy had covered the bottom of hers with leaves, stems, and a few berries, when a man's voice was heard muttering, not far off. "O Grace," whispered Susy, "that's Mr. Judkins!" He carried a whetstone, on which he was sharpening his jackknife.
When he was not asleep, or playing a complicated kind of Patience with a ragged pack of cards of his own, a game that I never saw before or since, and in which he recorded his winnings by sticking his jackknife into the table, when he was not engaged in either of these pursuits, he would ask me to read to him, "Foreign language, dear boy!"
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