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"But when I saw the pocketbook empty it was enough " "I should say so," interrupted Belle. "Who would ever have thought of finding it in your toolbox, Cora?" The words seemed fraught with strange import. "Was it really in the tool-box, Walter?" Cora asked. "On top of the tire pump and the lifting-jack," replied Walter. "And empty that's the queer part of it," commented Belle.
The thing that makes either the little night-shirt or the little baby is something about which we know nothing whatever at all. Our Organism Man is a walking tool-box, manufactory, workshop and bazaar worked from behind the scenes by someone or something that we never see.
He was on a business trip, evidently, for on his knees he held a tool-box with large ungloved hands, roughened and red. With his usual sweeping disregard of conventional approaches, he plunged boldly into the matter with which their thoughts were at once occupied. "So this was why Dr. Melton insisted I should take this car. Well, I'm grateful to him!
In another moment he would have sprung; but just then the smooth speed of the cab changed to a series of jarring bumps, each more emphatic than the last. It slowed down, then came to a halt. One of the tyres had burst. There was a thud, as the chauffeur jumped down. They heard him fumbling in the tool-box. Presently the body of the machine was raised slightly as he got to work with the jack.
The mountains were frowning now, instead of beckoning, glowering instead of promising, threatening instead of luring. One by one he locked the chains into place, and tossing the jack once more into the tool-box, resumed his place at the wheel. "A six per cent. grade if it's an inch!" he murmured. "And this is only the beginning. Wonder what I'm stepping into?"
He was only fourteen years old, slightly and wirily built; but his life had been lived among the mountains, his father had taught him no small measure of "sailoring," and he was not particularly afraid of heights. In the tool-box by the drum he found an old monkey-wrench and a short bar of iron, also a coil of fairly new Manila rope.
"Those," he argued, "who make the life of a man reside within his body, are like one who should mistake the carpenter's tool-box for the carpenter." He maintained that this had been my father's teaching, for which my father heartily trusts that he may be forgiven.
Hitch on behind. We like to travel in stylish company, Mrs. Todd and I." So we towed them over the mountain and left them at a red pump. John Quincy Burton's gratitude was immense. "The pleasure is all ours," Todd assured him. "But, say, old man!" "Well?" "You ought to buy a little old used car like this some time to carry in your tool-box." They were still laughing when we drove away.
"Now, don't talk in that way," said Harry; "why, marm Juno, you and Clump will live to dance at my wedding; see if you don't; and now, Juno, just give us a kettle of hot water, will you, to rinse out these gun-barrels with." When the guns were washed, dried, and rubbed off with oil, I said to Clump, "Have you got any bullets or buckshot?" "Don't know, Massa Bob 'spects so, en my ole tool-box."
The tool-box should not exceed two feet six inches in length, and one foot in depth, but it should contain the very best implements that can be made, with an extra supply of gimlets, awls, centre-bits, and borers of every description, also tools for boring iron; at least two dozen files of different sorts should be included."
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