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Updated: May 11, 2025
He opened the letter and read it while the two friends busied themselves with a consideration of Jim's bookcase, reading-table, and toolchest combined, all made out of one goods box with sundry trimmings. Jim said nothing when he had finished, grateful that no painful silence on the part of the other two men forced him to words until he was ready to speak. "Listen to me," he said at length.
Isaiah proudly displayed a jacknife which was a small toolchest, having four blades, a corkscrew, a screwdriver, a chisel, a button-hook and goodness knows what else besides. "Look at that!" crowed Isaiah, exhibiting the knife, bristling like a porcupine, on his open palm. "Look at it! By time, there ain't nothin' I can't do with that knife! Every time I look at it I find somethin' new.
And Mother Morrison gave him a box of watercolor paints and a painting book. Just as Brother had unwrapped the last of his gifts, dear Grandmother Hastings hurried in. Under her arm she carried a large square box, and her eyes twinkled as she set it down. "For the birthday boy!" she said. "A toolchest!" shouted Brother in delight. "Look, Grandma, Ralph gave me a puppy!"
Twaddles had found a compass in the toolchest and was having a wonderful time playing with that. Dot thought the time had come to put an idea of hers into practice. "They look wilted," she told herself, eyeing the daisies with disfavor. "What they need is water."
Captain Jenks seemed saddened by the discovery of the pretty, spotted wings, but when he had put them away in a little box in the cabin he cheered up and admired the daisies. "You'll find string in that toolchest," he directed them. "Going to make two bunches? That's right I don't like to see flowers crowded even after they're picked."
Says th' Topeka man, skinnin' over th' gossip about Christyan citizenship an' th' toolchest iv pothry: 'Eliza, here's a good paper, a fine wan, f'r ye an' th' childher. Sind Tommy down to th' corner an' get me a copy iv th' Polis Gazette." "Ye see, Hinnissy, th' editor wint to th' wrong shop f'r what Hogan calls his inspiration.
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