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Nippers and I had been separated he staying aft, while I took up my bunk forward. But the men on the boat, the few that stick in my memory as distinct personages: There was the bloated, fat Scotch boy, whom we called just Fatty, a sheepherder by calling. He had signed on for the trip, to take care of the sheep on the upper deck; There was a weak, pathetic cockney, who died of sun-stroke;
After a few words touching his qualifications, I engaged him, glad to have among my corps of copyists a man of so singularly sedate an aspect, which I thought might operate beneficially upon the flighty temper of Turkey, and the fiery one of Nippers.
The clock was still ticking minutes into hours, hours into days, days into weeks and months and years. "Oh dear," she said, "I do wonder " "Wonder what, my Molliekins?" asked Aunt Mary, preceding Hester with the tea-tray. "I wonder," Mollie repeated, and then began to laugh. "I don't suppose you ever bit like red-hot nippers, did you, Aunt Mary?" The Grape-Gatherers or Who was Mr. Smith?
They marched across the fairly open grassland toward Observation Hill, and there halted because the half-moon was too bright. About midnight they again advanced, as the moon was far down in the west. They marched in fours towards the foot of the hill, but had to cross the Harrismith Railway two deep through a gap where the wire fences were cut with nippers.
Though of a very ingenious mechanical turn, Nippers could never get this table to suit him. He put chips under it, blocks of various sorts, bits of pasteboard, and at last went so far as to attempt an exquisite adjustment, by final pieces of folded blotting-paper. But no invention would answer.
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable," was his mildly cadaverous reply. Just then the folding-doors opened, and Nippers approached. He seemed suffering from an unusually bad night's rest, induced by severer indigestion than common. He overheard those final words of Bartleby.
I am downright glad you missed the boats this morning; overslept yourself, I s'pose; I wanted to say `good-bye' to you and your chums, and I declare to goodness I was only just thinkin' when you come up to me that I'd be obliged to heave the brig to off the rock and run ashore in a boat just to shake nippers with you.
The boot destined to be drawn and quartered was laid upon the block; there it received a stroke or more from a knife until the heel was severed; then, with the nippers the various layers of sole were ripped off; with the scissors they cut off buttons and laces, and everything was sorted into its corresponding basket: in one, the heels; in others, the rubbers, the latchets, the buckles.
FIFTEEN YEARS. The angle with which the teeth meet is greater than at twelve, the teeth are smaller and dental stars are represented by dark round spots in all of the inferior incisors. The tables of the nippers and dividers are triangular. SEVENTEEN YEARS. All of the tables of the lower incisor teeth are triangular. The teeth are narrower and smaller than at fifteen.
David, jumping down, caught one, and showed us that he had a sharp head, terminating in a pair of horizontal nippers very like those of the warrior ants. In taking one up another had caught hold of his little finger, and gave it a nip which drew blood.
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