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Sheridan had lost color, and temper, too. He glared over his shoulder at his son as the latter handed the bag to Gurney. "You go on back to your work," he said. "I've had worse snips than that from a pencil-sharpener." "Oh no, you haven't!" said Gurney. "I have, too!" Sheridan retorted, angrily. "Bibbs, you go on back to your work.

We see as in a vision a world where a man tries to cut his throat with a pencil-sharpener; where a man must learn single-stick with a cigarette; where a man must try to toast muffins at electric lamps, and see red and golden castles in the surface of hot water pipes.

The modern man will wave a cigarette instead of a stick; he will cut his pencil with a little screwing pencil-sharpener instead of a knife; and he will even boldly offer to be warmed by hot water pipes instead of a fire. I have my doubts about pencil-sharpeners even for sharpening pencils; and about hot water pipes even for heat.

Joey, who was by now installed as an office adjunct, and who commonly referred to the mill as "ours," heard him whistling blithely and cocked an ear in the direction of the inner room. "Guess we've made another million dollars," he observed to the pencil-sharpener. Clayton was not in the habit of paying afternoon calls on women.

At last; in desperation, the Crown Prince deliberately broke off the point of his pencil, and went to the desk where Miss Braithwaite sat, monarch of the American pencil-sharpener which was the beloved of his heart. "Again!" said Miss Braithwaite shortly. And raised her eyebrows. "It's a very soft pencil," explained the Crown Prince. "When I press down on it, it it busts." "It what?"