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When you were, as I said before, making whittles for false priests, and daggers for dissolute G d d n-me cavaliers, to cut the people of England's throats with it was forged at Long Marston Moor, where blows went faster than ever rung hammer on anvil and it was tempered at Naseby, in the best blood of the cavaliers and it was welded in Ireland against the walls of Drogheda and it was grinded on Scottish lives at Dunbar and now of late it was polished in Worcester, till it shines as bright as the sun in the middle heaven, and there is no light in England that shall come nigh unto it."
'Ye cannot spoil it, Alan, said my father, rubbing his hands with much complacency; 'that is the very cream of the business, man it is just, as I said before, a subject upon whilk all the TYRONES have been trying their whittles for fifteen years; and as there have been about ten or a dozen agents concerned, and each took his own way, the case is come to that pass, that Stair or Amiston could not mend it; and I do not think even you, Alan, can do it much harm ye may get credit by it, but ye can lose none.
Arthur whittles things out of wood—he’ll show you what he can do in a minute—he’s a crackajack. Rosie makes candy. And I make these paper things.” “And do you make much money?” Maida asked, deeply interested. “Don’t make any money at all,” Dicky said. “The children pay us in nails. I charge them ten nails a-piece for the easy things and twenty nails for the hardest.
He sells other things, handsaws, and pencils, and mouth-harps, and two knives for a quarter, of such pure steel that he whittles shavings off a wire nail with 'em, and is particular to hand you the very identical knife he did it with. He has jewelry, though I don't suppose you could cut a wire nail with it. You might, at that. To him approaches a boy. "Got 'ny collar-buttons?"
He quoted the following passage from a newspaper: "When French tyranny becomes insupportable, we shall find our Cromwell. Sheffield in olden times used to be famous for its keen and well-tempered whittles. Well, they make bayonets there now, just as sharp and just as well-tempered.
I dare say you've been in his father's store many a time, Longworth & Whittles, one of the biggest and best dry-goods stores on Sixth avenue. The old gentleman's rolling in gold, and there ain't a nicer lady in New York City than Mrs. Longworth. You see, it was this way. Young Mr.
Martin he won't harness, because he hasn't been paid. He just sits on a chair in the door and whittles a stick, and don't say anything, and he won't harness." "We have simply got to have an automobile," said Mrs. Carroll. "How do you know it is because he hasn't been paid, Eddy?" asked Anna. "Because he said so; before he wouldn't say anything, and began whittling.
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