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This included souvenirs of cases on which he had been engaged, wonderful sets of burglars' tools, weapons used by murderers saws, picks, jointed jimmies of tempered steel, that could be taken apart and folded up in the space of a thick cigar and hidden about the person. Also a remarkable collection of handcuffs from many countries and periods in history.
It is still there before us, however, and the delightful little Palazzo Dario, intimately familiar to English and American travellers, picks itself out in the foreshortened brightness.
She is too deaf to hear the children as they come down the road, and she is nodding her poor old head, and feeling about in her lap for the lost needle, when Louise, with her bright eyes, spies it, picks it up, and before the old woman knows she has come, a soft little hand is laid in the brown, wrinkled one, and the little girl is shouting in her ear that she has brought some dinner from mamma.
Indeed, the route admits of no hurrying; for it often leads along precipices which would turn almost any head but his own; winds a narrow, rugged path over the mountains; picks its way along the rocky bed of the torrent; dives into forests tangled with vines and brambles; and cannot always turn aside even from the bog and the quagmire.
It was moonlight, so they all three went out with spades and picks to the road. "Where shall we dig, father?" asked Ben. The miller looked about; his farm was on the left of the road. "Stop these two or three drains here," he said, as he struck his spade on the left side.
As a shepherd picks up a ram's fleece with one hand and finds it no burden, so easily did Hector lift the great stone and drive it right at the doors that closed the gates so strong and so firmly set. These doors were double and high, and were kept closed by two cross-bars to which there was but one key.
Three o' the boys grabbed me, but Andrews never moved; so I let go of my gun an' sez, "It seems 'at you're the kind of a hound 'at picks out a safe time to snarl but the' 'll be other times." "Any time you wish," sez he, "but I didn't mean what you seem to think.
As soon as the axe-men had effected an entry to this deposit, other men with shovels and picks began to remove the filling. The work had continued nearly an hour when Orde commanded the fifty or more idlers back to camp. "Get out, boys," he ordered. "The sheriff will be here pretty quick now, and I don't want any row. Get out of sight." "And leave them to fight her out alone?
"It was simply a passage that stuck in my mind," he answered modestly; "when I read a book I pick them up just as a roller picks up a sod here and there as it moves over the lawn." "I should think you might write, Mr. Allen, you have such an original way of putting things!" "I have thought of it," returned the Celebrity, "and I may, some fine day."
I told Carrie, and she seems to want to try." "Good for her," said the manager. "It'll be a real nice affair. Do her good, too. Has she ever had any experience?" "Not a bit." "Oh, well, it isn't anything very serious." "She's clever, though," said Drouet, casting off any imputation against Carrie's ability. "She picks up her part quick enough." "You don't say so!" said the manager.
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