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Updated: June 14, 2025
It was a bender of a night, but he saw his way to a brilliant stroke of statecraft that would land him on the heights of official approval forever. Heat did not matter. The man at the punkah had fallen asleep, but he did not bother to waken him. Back at the knot-hole, babu Sita Ram watched him scribble half a dozen letters, tearing each up in turn until the last one pleased him.
His wife had long ago learned, so she said, that any attempt to catch his mental eye while an interesting trial was in progress was as unavailing as to try to call a street gamin away from a knot-hole in a fence around a baseball field.
"Well I do, but if he lost only change, prob'ly it's his own, and mother's gone to give him some more." "Pooh!" said Bobby, "it's not " But before he could say anything more, excited voices were heard, and four black and shining faces appeared over the top of the fence, while a guilty eye looked through a knot-hole farther down.
When the spot is surrounded by a high board fence, I think I have seen her peeping at the cabbages through a knot-hole. At last she learns to open the gate. It is a great triumph of bovine wit. She does it with her horn or her nose, or may be with her ever ready tongue.
"Now we will stop at the squirrel's house," said the pigeon, as they stopped at an old tree. "Rap-tap-rap" with his beak on a knot-hole in the trunk, and a fat squirrel opened the door. What a lot of chattering! he was inviting them to enter. "How delightful," thought Laurie as they stepped inside, "now I shall see what a squirrel's house is really like."
"When Betsy died we was only four years married I could have crawled into a knot-hole an' died there. You got to save him, Jinny, but" he came suddenly to his feet "he ain't safe here. They might come any minute, if they've got back on his trail. I'll take him up the gorge. You know where." "You sit still, Uncle Tom," she rejoined. "Leave him where he is a minute.
It was a knot-hole in the roof. He cocked his head to one side, shut one eye and put the other one to the hole, like a possum looking down a jug; then he glanced up with his bright eyes, gave a wink or two with his wings which signifies gratification, you understand and says, 'It looks like a hole, it's located like a hole blamed if I don't believe it IS a hole!
Davies isn't very well, but it's on personal business I want to see the captain. I'll go down with him." "Come over to my house and have some coffee, or a cocktail," said Sanders, with cheery hospitality. "Just what you need, old man. You look as if you'd been dragged by the heels through a knot-hole." "Barnickel is making some coffee for me, thank you, Sanders.
In a short time he discovered a diagonal knot-hole in one of the window-shutters, and upon placing his hand over it, the visionary paintings on the roof disappeared.
"Oh, yes," Cecily had assured him. "The Bible is always the same." "I thought maybe they'd got some new improvements on it since Aunt Jane's day," said Peter, relieved. "Sara Ray is coming along the lane, and she's crying," announced Dan, who was peering out of a knot-hole on the opposite side of the loft. "Sara Ray is crying half her time," said Cecily impatiently.
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