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Updated: June 24, 2025
"'What for? said the tiresome boy. "Lucilla did not answer. "'What for? repeated Bernard, throwing down the nail-passer, and taking up the hammer, with which he knocked away on the place where he had made the hole.
"'There goes! returned Bernard, snapping another; then, laying down the knife, he took up the nail-passer, using it to bore a hole in the board which formed the table of the root-house. "'You must not do that, said Lucilla, almost drawn out of her patience. "'Who says so? answered Bernard. "'It is mischief, said Lucilla. 'It is papa's table; he will be vexed if he sees it.
There was a nail-passer, and a hammer, and a strong knife, and one or two more things very useful to a young boy in making toys, or anything else in a small way; in short, everything that was safe for such a one to have. But Bernard was out of humour, and looked for something to find fault with, so of course he could find nothing to please him.
Henry, besides his book, had a large rough knife, a ball of string, an awl, a little nail-passer, a paper of tacks, and some other little things which happened to be just what he wanted most of all things in the world, for he was always making things in wood.
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