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Updated: June 2, 2025
Inside the pocket were the automatic and several slivers of lead, fragments of the shattered missile. "Jack," Harry said with a shiver, as he grasped his chum's hand, "that was a mighty close shave. I'm glad it terminated so well." The silent grasp that Jack returned spoke louder than words of the bond of friendship that existed between the boys.
'I'll tell you after you have answered my questions, retorted Slivers, rudely, 'but I'm not asking out of curiosity its business. Barty thought that Slivers was very peculiar, but determined to humour him, and to take his leave as early as possible. 'Well, go on, he said, drinking his whisky, 'I'll answer.
I know what such words mean, and I would fight any man who used them, if I had only one arm and no leg to stand on!" "Captain Slivers," said the Colonel, "you are unreasonable!" "There he goes! another insult!" cried the disabled soldier, partially appealing to the ladies.
There were wooden pans full of tiny ruby fish, and little children with nets dabbled and shrieked in chase of some special beauty, and the frightened fish kicked up showers of little pearls with their tails. The children carried lanterns in the shape of small red paper fish bobbing at the end of slivers of bamboo, and these drifted through the crowd like a strayed constellation of baby stars.
The sheet of pins and their fallers are thus continuously moving towards the drawing rollers and supporting the slivers at the same time.
So he gave her something that sent her into a spasm of coughing, and presently up came a little wood splinter or so. "This child has no membranous croup," said he. "She has been chewing a bit of pine shingle or something of the kind, and got some little slivers in her throat. They won't do her any hurt." "No," said I, "I can well believe that.
He used to stop here nearly all day doing business, with the small table before him covered with scrip, and the mantelpiece behind him covered with specimens of quartz, all labelled with the name of the place whence they came. The inkstand was dirty, the ink thick and the pens rusty; yet, in spite of all these disadvantages, Slivers managed to do well and make money.
They had drawn out cords from his arms and legs and thrust sticks between them and the flesh. His back was still covered with scars from the burning slivers which they had stuck through the skin. They had torn the nails from his left hand with their teeth.
The grandmother in such homes is the real mother of the flock: the mother who bore the children has no time to manifest mother-love; it is the grandmother who nurses the stone-bruises, picks out the slivers, kisses away the sorrows, gladdens young hearts by her simple stories, and rocks in her strong, old arms the babe, as she croons and quavers a song of love and duty.
Some one was struggling to break in the door now, for it shook. Harvey sprang back, mounted the chair, and tore down his coat, tumbling to the floor, chair and all, with a clatter. A voice shouted, "Open the door, or I'll shoot!" but Harvey gave no heed. He ran to the window and literally fell down the ladder, filling his hands with slivers.
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