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She looked at it with soft, excited cries of surprise and delight, instantly divining that the unopened parcels and sealed boxes contained more of the gifts which her foster-father was constantly lavishing upon her. He smiled down at her beaming face and dancing eyes, and then taking out his pocket-knife he cut the cords and removed the covers of the boxes.
"Please, sir, I I forgot the emergency kit," stuttered the new chauffeur. "You forgot! Great Moses!" howled Buck. "Have you got the jack, then?" "Yes, sir." "Get it, please," said Ralph, pulling off one of his gloves. The boy rapidly slashed it with his pocket-knife, while the others watched him interestedly. In the meantime, the chauffeur had tremblingly "jacked up" the car.
The old Ranger called the "guide" by name. "Miguel," he said, "the fireworks are wanted to-night. Bring 'em to me." The professor protested, but a glance at the sinewy frame of the mountaineer decided Miguel, and he brought several packages. In order to please the little girl, Rifle-Eye lent her his huge pocket-knife and let her open the packages, sharing the surprises with her.
"No more I had," replied Dan, holding out a tempting slice at the end of his pocket-knife. "You must have had some, or you couldn't have bought that pear," argued Dudley, accepting. "Didn't buy it." "Do you mean to say you stole it?" "Yes." "You're a thief," denounced Dudley, wiping his mouth and throwing away a pip. "I know it. So are you." "No, I'm not." "What's the good of talking nonsense.
No one who has not lived in the wilderness can have any idea of the value of the hunting-knife. The uses to which it can be put are countless. It is pocket-knife, scissors, hatchet, dagger, and all cutting and stabbing instruments in one; it will, moreover, take the place of revolver and rifle on many occasions, and has one immense advantage over them its utter silence.
Many of the young men carry home-made billies or "brass knucks." Every man and boy has at least a pocket-knife with serviceable blade. Fights with such crude weapons are frequent. There are few spectacles more sickening than two powerful but awkward men slashing each other with common jack-knives, though the fatalities are much less frequent than in gun-fighting.
"It must be as dark as a pocket in the woods by this time," exclaimed Malcolm. "What do you suppose Ginger will say to us for leaving her so long?" "You will have to take a knife to cut her loose," said Keith. "I tried to untie the knots before I came away, but I couldn't move them." "My pocket-knife is up-stairs," answered Malcolm. "I'll get something in the dining-room that will do."
This was better still; it gave him something to do; and he at once attacked the tight knots, which proved so hard that he pulled out his pocket-knife, which had not been taken away. But the rope might be useful for escape!
Chop-sticks are, of course, provided; but, as yet, my dexterity in the manipulation of these articles is decidedly of the negative order, and so my pocket-knife performs the dual office of knife and fork; for the rice, one can use, after a manner, the little porcelain dipper provided for ladling an evil-smelling liquid over that staple.
"Poor, heart-broken woman," she thought, sorrowfully, "she has found rest now." She bent down and made, with a pocket-knife, an incision in the fresh earth, and placed therein the long stems of a delicate boquet, which she had brought for the purpose. When she arose, bright, crystal drops sparkled upon the velvet petals, and her eyes were still shining with tears.
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