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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Now, Tom, tell us all about Hull's surrender," said Zenas, to whom the stirring story was already an oft-told tale. "Wall, after I seed you, three months agone," said Tom, nodding to Neville, and taking a fresh stick to whittle, "we trudged on all that day and the next to Long P'int, an' a mighty long p'int it wuz to reach, too. Never wuz so tired in my life.
It might have been an hour before Dan Anderson leaned over, picked up a splinter to whittle, and went on with his story, back of which I was long before this well convinced there remained some topic concealed, albeit beneath inconsequent and picturesque details.
But I said if he left off the last year at Harvard I wouldn't have anything to do with him." Whitwell put his hand in his pocket for his knife, and mechanically looked down for a stick to whittle. In default of any, he scratched his head. "I guess she'll make it warm for him. She's had her mind set on his studyin' law so long, 't she won't give up in a hurry.
Even minister Whittle had a curiosity to know how much was added to the sum-total of Deacon Pratt's assets, by the return of a craft that had so long been set down among the missing.
Gridley put a foot on the hub of the buckboard wheel and began to whittle a match with a penknife that was as keen as a razor. "The new chum is in the saddle; look over your shoulder to the left and you'll see him sitting on a cross-tie beside McCloskey," he said. "I've seen him before.
"By gosh!" said this voice, resounding through the whole room, "that strange young woman has bought the whole church fair!" "There's something wrong," said Mrs. Whittle again. "Ain't you got the money?" queried the man's voice. "Yes, but " "Then for God's sake hang onto it!" After Jim Dodge had taken his mother and sister home, he stole off by himself for a solitary walk.
Or, I will conduct myself as the free-born American the gay Brother Jonathan! I will whittle me a stick. I will whistle to myself "Yankee Doodle," and forget my passion in excessive expectoration. Hoho! wake snakes and walk chalks. The world is divided into two great divisions, Paris and the provinces. There is but one Paris.
For the latter it was customary to whittle out a little wooden tube, and fasten it in a tin cup, through which he could suck up the water. As this mouth cancer seemed contagious, none of us would allow any one afflicted with it to use any of our cooking utensils. The Rebel doctors at the hospital resorted to wholesale amputations to check the progress of the gangrene.
But I said if he left off the last year at Harvard I wouldn't have anything to do with him." Whitwell put his hand in his pocket for his knife, and mechanically looked down for a stick to whittle. In default of any, he scratched his head. "I guess she'll make it warm for him. She's had her mind set on his studyin' law so long, 't she won't give up in a hurry.
Here Miss Christie, radiant with joy and malice, could not conceal her delight, but patted him on the shoulder, and then hastily retreated into the background, lest she should spoil the sport; while as Johnnie, having small command of countenance, did not dare to turn from the window out of which he was pretending to look, Crayshaw rose himself, shook hands with Miss Crampton, and setting a chair for her, began to whittle again.
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