They have but few axes among them, and the only too usually imployed in felling the trees or forming the canoe, carving &c is a chissel formed of an old file about an Inch or an Inch and a half broad.
Wedns 22d--We start early and git to foart Chissel whear we git some good loaf Bread & good whiskey.
Beyond Fort Chissel ran the Indian trail toward the Gap and, within fifty miles of the Gap, stood Fort Watauga on a branch of the Holston.
Chissel and his mates quickly obeyed the summons, for he had seen from the first that his services would too probably be required.
We youngsters had a great respect for him, notwithstanding some of his peculiarities, and should never have dreamed of playing him the tricks we did old Chissel and Trundle in the Harold.
Chissel knew it was the very sort of bone he had scraped not an hour before.
I could manage to imitate Bobby Smudge's voice, and I should just like to look in on old Chissel when he is taking his first snooze.
The uplifted axes gleamed in the hands of Chissel and his mates, as they stood round the mizen-mast; others were sent to cut away the shrouds, and clear the wreck of the mast as it fell.
I think Chissel was very wrong in the way he treated the poor wretch.
One day there was a light breeze and a smooth sea, and Trundle, not expecting to be wanted, had repaired to the main-deck, where Chissel was superintending his crew at work.
I knowed the little chap wouldn't let us alone, after he'd given Mr Chissel a taste of his quality.
Rendered desperate by this unexpected discovery, Mallet, after vainly struggling for liberation, drew the chissel from his pocket, and aimed a stroke at the bosom of Sir Henry.
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