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Here, we will get most of the fellows on shore, and I am ready to give a prize to the best runner." "I will give my pocket-knife," said the midshipman; "that will be an encouragement to the men. They are good sort of fellows, and I like to afford them amusement. It is little we or they get these days, kept at sea month after month."
The worm is dead by this time, and God knows I prefer to let him rest in peace. The quickest way to untangle a line is to do it like this." He severed it with his pocket-knife. "A line like that costs twenty-five cents," said the old man, a trace of dismay in his voice. "That's what it cost when it was new," drawled the other.
As a solace for the disappointment, I gave the Sheikh three handkerchiefs and a pocket-knife. The Tuaricks came in for a little soap, an article seemingly in universal request. El-Wady is a deep valley, lying like a moat between the elevated sandy desert and the plateau on which Mourzuk is situated.
He went on shrugging and kicking up his heels. 'Girls like pugs, I remarked. 'I fancy they do, said Temple, with a snort of indifference. Then I suggested, 'A pocket-knife for the hunting-field is a very good thing. 'Do you think so? was Temple's rejoinder, and I saw he was dreadfully afraid of my speaking the person's name for whom it would be such a very good thing.
A brief use of his pocket-knife was enough to make room for his hand and arm to get through, and then he found a great iron bolt but so rusty that he could not move it. Lina whimpered. He took his knife again, made the hole bigger, and stood back. In she shot her small head and long neck, seized the bolt with her teeth, and dragged it, grating and complaining, back. A push then opened the door.
For the knife is only a short sword; and the pocket-knife is a secret sword. I opened it and looked at that brilliant and terrible tongue which we call a blade; and I thought that perhaps it was the symbol of the oldest of the needs of man. The next moment I knew that I was wrong; for the thing that came next out of my pocket was a box of matches.
Supposing that some satisfactory arrangement were come to, and supposing also that you had a silver-bladed pocket-knife with which you could peel them in the open air, then peaches would come very high in the list of fruits. But the conditions are difficult.
It was curiously wrought in brass, of an intricate antique pattern which would have puzzled a modern locksmith. He turned the case over, and saw that the bottom had been mortised and screwed. The screws had been deeply countersunk, and were embedded in rust, but a few were loose with age. Colwyn unscrewed these loose ones with his pocket-knife, and then set about unloosening the others.
But this occupation did not prevent me from keeping an eye on Thorndyke's movements, and presently I suspended my labours to watch him as, with his pocket-knife, he scraped together some objects that he had found on the pillow. "What do you make of this?" he asked, as I stepped over to his side.
"I know," he interrupted quietly, "but I'd rather run the risk of lockjaw than the certainty of blood poisoning, and I know that that is what it will turn to. Last night I made up my mind to cut into the damned thing this morning if that last poultice I put on had no effect. Now go ahead. There's a bottle of carbolic acid below, which will be useful, and my pocket-knife has a razor-edge."
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