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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Which is why I've been droppin' in on his old lady so often, tryin' to dope why he shouldn't be let off, same as the others. Mrs. Mears, she's all primed with the notion that her Edgar has been makin' himself so useful down there that the colonel would get all balled up in his work if he didn't keep Stub right on the job.
The honey-bee that licked up our leavings on the old stub belonged to a swarm, as it proved, about half a mile farther down the ridge, and a few days afterward fate overtook them, and their stores in turn became the prey of another swarm in the vicinity, which also tempted Providence and were overwhelmed.
Having procured a parcel of splinters split from the dry and resinous roots of some old pine stub, that never-failing and by no means contemptible substitute for lamp or candle among the pioneers of a pine-growing country, he proceeded rapidly to the edge of the slash, as a tract of felled forest is generally denominated by the first settlers, especially of the northern States.
Sim Gage, his wounded leg stiff and painful enough, crawled out of his bunk the same where She but now had slept and made some sort of a light by means of matches and a stub of candle; found a stick and made some shavings; made shift to start a fire. With a hatchet he found on the floor he hacked off more of the charred woodwork of his own door-frame, seeing that it must be ruined altogether.
Stiff as a stub, every muscle taut, all alert, he stood, till flash! and the long pointed bill pinned a perch, a foot and a half beneath the water. He had quite made out a breakfast, when, stepping upon a tall tussock, he stood face to face with me a human spectator! It was only for a moment that I could keep motionless enough to puzzle him.
He paused for a moment and looked up at the stars, then went on in a cold, matter-of-fact tone. "They were lashed to the headless body of the man they had murdered, and thrown into the royal tiger-cage, by order of his Highness, Ali, Sultan of Maur." I raised my curtain and threw the stub of my cigar out into the darkness, a smothered exclamation of horror escaping my lips.
And then something drove pitilessly against her body, and she flung out one arm, holding Peter close with the other and caught hold of a bit of stub that protruded like a handle from the black and slippery log the flood-water had brought down upon her. "We're all right, Peter," she cried, even in that moment when she knew she had lost. "We're all ri "
The first flash of enthusiasm that had filled Wabigoon on reading the paper discovered by Rod was quickly passing away, and the white youth could not but notice the change which came over both Mukoki and his young friend when they stood once more beside the smooth white stub that reached up to the floor of the chasm above.
He started forward from the restaurant door and paused, struggling with a refractory match in an effort to light a cigarette. A man brushed by him, making for the restaurant door, a tall, wiry-built, swarthy, sharp-featured man and Jimmie Dale flipped the stub of his match away from him, and went on. Sonnino himself! There was luck then at the start the coast was clear!
And Peabody wrote the assumed name of William Hickey, first with a stub and then with a fine point, both of which signatures she copied like a flash, in each case, however, being guilty of the lapse of spelling the word William "Willian."
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