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Updated: June 23, 2025
Turning enters largely into their decorative woodwork, and the turners, who use a very simple form of foot-lathe, are busily engaged in providing the various articles required pilasters for a balcony, hubs for a cart-wheel, or the turned finials of a baby's cot. In a kindred trade the wood-carver is busy producing embellishments for the "kyoung" or "zeyat" which some wealthy resident is erecting.
Inside in the large, wainscotted room, sat the wood-carver with his wife at the table, looking at a large book of beautiful colored pictures of animals which he would be able to make good use of in his handicraft. When the two arrived he welcomed them and invited them to come and be seated on the wooden bench, where he and his wife were sitting and which ran along the wall around the entire room.
He didn't go to the photographer in his wood-carver disguise, he went as a gentleman in a great hurry, and willing to pay any price for the work." Tignol twisted the long ends of his black mustache reflectively. "He was covering his tracks in advance?" "Evidently." "And the smooth young widow lied?" "Lied?" snapped the detective savagely. "I should say she did.
His face was always preoccupied and moody, and scarcely any sound would catch his ear and make him lift up his head. There must be mania somewhere, but it could not be discovered. "Have you any plans for the future, Merle?" he was asked the day he was discharged as cured. "Yes, Monsieur," he replied; "I am a wood-carver by trade." "And where are you going to now?" was the next question.
Bruce's father for a ship to be called the Sea Queen, but by some mischance, ship and figurehead never came together, and the old wood-carver left it to his daughter, in lieu of other property. It has not been wholly unproductive, Mrs.
"No, naturally not; otherwise there might have been no sixth notch. The third or the fourth, even the second object of his favor might have blasted his fair young career as a wood-carver. Has he set any limit to his ambition? Is he going to make it an even hundred and then retire?" "I don't know!" she gasped. "I must ask," he added, thoughtfully. Was he out of his head?
Next the hunter stood his dog, and it seemed as if he would even wag his tail. Toni was like one enchanted and hardly breathed. When his mother finished speaking, the wood-carver said it seemed to him as if she thought the affair would half go of itself, but it was not so. If a thing was to be done right, it cost much time and patience to learn.
All have been placed under the direction of competent masters of their craft; men who have long since served their apprenticeship to its mysteries, and earned an honorable position in its gilds. Here the carver works in an atmosphere of exhilarating emulation. Stone-carver and wood-carver vie with each other in producing work that will do credit to their respective brotherhoods.
The structural parts of some of these screens are composed of elaborate imitations of stone vaulting and tracery, so closely copied as to be almost deceiving, therefore they can not be taken as good examples of suggestive opportunity for the wood-carver. The carved work, on the other hand, is marked by a strong craft character, essentially woody both in design and execution.
Jean Merle stepped down the stone causeway of the farm-yard to open the gate for him. "What are you doing here?" he inquired suspiciously. "A wood-carver, called old Marlowe, used to live here," he answered, "what has become of him?" "Dead!" said Simon; "dead this many a year. Why, if you know anything you ought to know that." "What did he die of?" asked Jean Merle.
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