tool-orderliness

Updated: May 21, 2025

"Shore," said Pollock. "We'll have to begin there to-morrow." But Bob's long training in handling large bodies of men with tools had developed in him an instinct of tool-orderliness. "Won't do," he stated with something of his old-time authority in his tones. "Suppose for some reason we shouldn't get back here to-morrow? That's the way such things get mislaid; and they're valuable."

Stewart Edward White - The Rules of the Game