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Updated: June 29, 2025
John, taking the initiative, began to draw from his pocket a bit of bunting; but so methodical was he, that before he had completed the process I took from my pocket a piece of red chalk, and on my white, Sunday nightcap figured the Stars and Stripes. This done, I rolled it round my jacknife, and let it slide downward ere John had his Union Jack ready.
Uncle Eb had to do our buying for us in the end. 'Wall, what'll ye hev? he said to me at length. I tried to think-it was no easy thing to do after all I had seen. 'Guess I'll take a jacknife, I whispered. 'Give this boy a knife, he demanded. 'Wants t' be good 'n sharp. Might hev t' skin a swift with it sometime. 'What ye want? he asked, then turning to Hope. 'A doll, she whispered.
All at once Larry uttered a yell of pain and anger. One of Phil's missiles had landed in the pit of the fellow's stomach. Larry doubled up like a jacknife, and, dropping suddenly, rolled rapidly toward the foot of the slope. Phil, still clinging to his weapons, ran as fast as his slender legs would carry him in pursuit of his man. "I hit him! I hit him!" he yelled.
The handsomest of men, tall and stately, he could pass no way without attracting attention; strangers in the Senate gallery first asked to have him pointed out to them, and seeing him to all appearance idling his time with his jacknife and bits of soft wood which he whittled into various shapes of hearts and anchors for distribution among his lady acquaintances, they usually went away thinking him a queer old man.
The handsomest of men, tall and stately, he could pass no way without attracting attention; strangers in the Senate gallery first asked to have him pointed out to them, and seeing him to all appearance idling his time with his jacknife and bits of soft wood which he whittled into various shapes of hearts and anchors for distribution among his lady acquaintances, they usually went away thinking him a queer old man.
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