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Updated: May 7, 2025
The musicians in the gallery were sawing away for their lives on violins, and working breathlessly at the hautboys, and all that gay company of Virginia's best, spinning about in a country dance of old England.
A correspondence was now carried on by means of letters concealed within the loaves of bread sent daily to the prisoner. In the same way files were provided for sawing through his window-bars. A very delicate ladder of ropes, by which he was to effect his escape into the court below, was also transmitted. The plan had been completely arranged.
He looked as if he had plenty to do, and was sawing away so that the sawdust was flying. "'Morning." "'Morning." The sawdust flew faster and faster. "You seem to be busy to-day." "Oh yes!" the saw was now working with dangerous rapidity "if I'm to get finished for the holiday, I must hurry up." How's the coal-supply getting on?" That took effect.
"Right here, then," Will explained, "is where you get your little Sherlock Holmes lesson! This is a new saw, as you all see. It probably never was used before. Now the man who did the cutting bought this at some nearby store. Don't you see what it means?" "That's a fact!" cried Tommy. "We can find out who bought the saw, and so discover the gink who tried to commit murder by sawing the ladders."
The second shoot of the oak is reddish: there was one oak in the Chace which after midsummer thus became ruddy from the highest to the lowest branch; others did not show the change nearly so much. Lastly came the brown and yellow autumn tints. In the kitchen at Lucketts' Place there was a stool made by sawing off about six inches of the butt of a small ash tree.
There are few lines of manufacture which are not represented here. Machines for working in iron and other metals, for sawing and fashioning wood, for the ginning, breaking or carding of cotton, flax, wool, jute and hemp, for working in stone, glass, leather and paper, are shown.
The air was cool and the path was damp, and water tumbling everywhere down from the rocks formed pretty cascades and rivulets. We heard the clang of the hatchets, and soon came upon men felling timber and sawing up trees into coffin boards. We were in the Valley of the Shadow, and it was the finest coffin center of the district.
'Mr Rollin! I said. Yes siree, said he, pausing in the midst of his chorus to look up at me. 'Where can I get a piece of yellow pine? 'See 'n a minute, he said. Then he continued his sawing and his song, "Says I Dan Skinner, I thank yer mighty mean" what d' ye want it fer? he asked stopping abruptly. 'Going to make a ruler, I answered.
He rolled upon the stone again and began rubbing the rope that bound him against the sharp edge. Outside he could hear the crackling of fagots and the roar of a newly-kindled fire, so he knew he had no time to spare. He wriggled and pushed his body right and left, right and left, sawing away at the rope, until the strain and exertion started the perspiration from every pore.
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