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Updated: June 28, 2025
This operation consists in allowing the ship to drift slowly across the line where you expect the cable to be, while at the end of a long rope, fast either to the bow or stern, a grapnel drags along the ground. This grapnel is a small anchor, made like four pot-hooks tied back to back.
All sorts of mechanics' tools are clumsy and inconvenient: the turner's lathe moves by broken impulses; door-hinges are made to order, and lift the door from the ground as it opens upon them; all nails and tacks we hand-made; window-sashes are contrived to be glazed without putty, and the panes are put in from the top, so that to repair a broken glass the whole sash is taken apart; cooking-stoves are unknown to the native cooks, who work at an open fire, with crane and dangling pot-hooks; furniture is put together with wooden pegs instead of screws; you do not buy a door-lock at a hardware store, you get a fabbro to make it, and he comes with a leathern satchel full of tools to fit and finish it on the door.
"The same pot-hooks and hangers precisely!" said Emma, "are they not? Oh!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms round the Captain's neck and kissing him, "uncle William, how could you deceive us so?" The Captain, to use his own expressions, was taken aback fairly brought up all standin'. It had never occurred to his innocent mind that he should commit himself so simply.
There's that colored man upstairs asleep under the wheel; the Doctor asleep down here; and you making pot-hooks in a copy-book with a pencil! Expect the ship to steer herself to Brazil? We're just drifting around the sea like an empty bottle and a week behind time as it is. What's happened to you all?" She was so angry that her voice rose to a scream.
My mother also ended her visit at Dixiana, preferring to return to the quiet of her two little whitewashed rooms, and the old fireplace, and the sooty pot-hooks which our people's slaves had used for two generations in the past.
A sheet of rough writing paper, tied on by a shred of osier, served her for a hat. Beneath this paper covered with pot-hooks and round O's, from which it derived the name of "schoolpaper" the loveliest mass of blonde hair that ever a daughter of Eve could have desired, was twisted up, and held in place by a species of comb made to comb out the tails of horses.
That ingenious stripling had, we have already seen, under the tuition of Ranting Bob, mastered the art of reading, nay, he could even construct and link together certain curious pot-hooks, which himself and Mrs. Lobkins were wont graciously to term "writing." So far, then, the way of MacGrawler was smoothed and prepared.
"Compound addition and the first declension?" suggested Robin. "Or spelling and tables?" said Wilfred. "Will Patty do pot-hooks and learning to read, like me?" said Kitty. "You will find it easier, though, if you're one of the youngest, won't you?" said Milly. "No, indeed. I expect all the work will be much harder than anything I've ever done yet.
Now there underlies that metaphor the notion that there is a certain line to which we are to conform. The schoolmaster draws a firm, straight line in the child's copybook; and then the little unaccustomed hand takes up on the second line its attempt, and makes tremulous, wavering pot-hooks and hangers.
Some persons draw pictures on their pads or put pot-hooks on their letters for talent varies or they roughen up their hair. I knew one gifted fellow whose shoes presently would cramp him until he kicked them off, when at once the juices of his intellect would flow. Genius, I am told, sometimes locks its door and, if unrestrained, peels its outer wrappings.
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