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Updated: September 14, 2025
Miss Alathea's dignity forsook her. "Colonel," she confessed, "I couldn't wait to hear the result." "No more could I," he somewhat sheepishly admitted. "But I didn't enter the race-track," she explained in haste. "I was equally firm." "And Neb told me of this knot-hole." "The rascal he told me of it, too." "Colonel," she said, smiling, "we must forgive each other.
Your visit and your eager inquiries have started a train of thought in my thick head." Don Mike obeyed, and while he devoted himself to his breakfast, old Bill Conway amused himself rolling pellets out of bread and flipping them at a knot-hole in the rough wall of the mess hall.
Punch looked down the knot-hole through which the bright morning rays were streaming up as well as between the ill-fitting boards; but as far as he could make out there was no one below, and he remained peering down for some minutes, recalling all that had taken place overnight, till, turning slightly, he caught sight of the basket of provisions.
Cassy placed her ear at the knot-hole; and, as the morning air blew directly towards the house, she could overhear a good deal of the conversation. A grave sneer overcast the dark, severe gravity of her face, as she listened, and heard them divide out the ground, discuss the rival merits of the dogs, give orders about firing, and the treatment of each, in case of capture.
He bustled in and out of the knot-hole, bringing a broom and an old coat that had been forgotten, and packed them on the butterflies, and then he helped the lady fairy on to one, and clambered on another himself. After they were all ready to start he found that he had forgotten to unhitch the butterflies, and grumbling and scolding he clambered down again and untied them.
"But I must see the old woman smile again over her good luck." Although it was "my girl" face to face, it was always "the old woman" behind each other's back. There was a knot-hole in the plank walls of the house. In spite of Anne Marie's rheumatism they would never stop it up, needing it, they said, for light and air.
The knot-hole was too small for the wolves, and there were so many of them in the hut that it was some time before they could get the door open.
"But what puzzles me, as it seemed to puzzle Lewis, more than anything else, is what became of O'Malley?" "I guess I can see through that knot-hole," Tom rejoined. "Yes?" "I bet O'Malley got a squint at me or perhaps at you as we walked up the track from this coach, and he lit out in a hurry. There stood the Three-Oughts-One, and there were we.
I have seen gray squirrels dragging ears of corn about as heavy as themselves out of our field through loose snow and up a tree, balancing them on limbs and eating in comfort with their dry, electric tails spread airily over their backs. Once I saw a fine hardy fellow go into a knot-hole. Thrusting in my hand I caught him and pulled him out.
In Smaland a parallel legend is current, according to which the ancestress of a certain family was an elf-maid who came into the house with the sunbeams through a knot-hole in the wall, and, after being married to the son and bearing him four children, vanished the same way as she had come.
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