For answer Peters brought the pencil-sharpener out of his waistcoat pocket.
Then he told the story of the pencil-sharpener to James, and showed James the pencil-sharpener to prove it.
But then, out of gratitude to Peters, he determined to carry through the delicate task of getting the pencil-sharpener back to the Doctor.
These men stand by the pavement and display most queer and uncommon curiosities, such as walking spiders and such like; and once from one of these men Pratt's father bought quite a new sort of pencil-sharpener of the rarest kind.
Me would have struck while the iron was hot, as the saying is, and taken the pencil-sharpener there and then.
He was thinking the next morning how to return the pencil-sharpener to Pratt in a mysterious and Sherlock Holmes-like way, when, just after prayers, the Doctor stopped the school and spoke.
Dunstan from Mr. Briggs, he chanced to look about, and saw on the mantelpiece Pratt's pencil-sharpener and a pencil in course of being sharpened.
Not long ago, a kindly friend conveyed to me a new form of pencil-sharpener which he had chanced to find exhibited in a stationer's shop at Plymouth, our great naval port.
Illustration: A Wedge Attachment for a Pencil-Sharpener Stick for Changing the Sheets of Abrasive] Splice for Round Belts Sash cords or round belts are easily spliced with a coil spring, and for belts this joint will run smooth and noiseless.
A Pencil-Sharpener Stick Do not discard the sandpaper stick or pencil sharpener used by a draftsman just because all the abrasive sheets have been removed.
Scissors Sharpener [Illustration: In Attempting to Cut the Hardened Steel Pin the Edge is Drawn Sharp] Procure an ordinary wood clothespin and drill a 1/8-in.
Illustration: A Pencil Sharpener That will Make a Point without Breaking the Lead] Cleaning an Oilstone Use kerosene oil and a sprinkling of emery flour and proceed to sharpen tools.
Illustration: The Ropes at the Ends of the Sack Make a Handle to Carry It Like a Grip] A Pencil Sharpener A pencil sharpened with the device shown will have a better point and one that will not break easily while being sharpened.
The [Illustration: Sharpener on Table Edge] steel is hardened before fastening it in place.
How to Make a Pocket Skate Sharpener [166] Secure a square file and break off a piece, Fig 1, the length of a paper clip, Fig.
No; the pencil-sharpener smashed first time I used it, and the net-bag got lost at home.
Until the day of the crime, Judge Hoyt had been in the habit of using a patent sharpener to sharpen his lead pencils.
Hastily she traveled to the pencil sharpener and put on it as sharp a point as possible.
Fortunately, most of the boys carried pencils in their pockets, Dick and Doris had a supply of stubs among their school things, and with much whirling of the pencil sharpener in the kitchen, they were soon ready.
Well, we all seemed to have the pencil sharpener craze, and I was glad of it, and determined to push pencil sharpeners all I could, if only as a kind of thank-you for their putting me onto a new channel of getting business.
He sold only one sharpener the first afternoon, but he had a request for a pocketknife, which we delivered the next day.
Tell him I want to show him a new pencilsharpener that we have just got the agency for.
Well," I replied hesitatingly, "it seems to me that a pencil sharpeneris not just the thing for a hardware man to sell.
Do you remember that pencilsharpener salesman that came here?
I remembered the rude reception I had given the Cincinnati pencil sharpener man when he called on me, and the way he had come back at me, and I said to myself that, if I could only see Dunn then I'd give him the same kind of medicine.
Well, I'll show you," and here I put my sharpener on the counter.
A salesman came in one morning from the Cincinnati Pencil Sharpener Company to offer me the local agency for the firm's pencil pointers.
The conversation ended there, because the salesman from the Cincinnati Pencil Sharpener Company came in again.
I brought up the matter of the Cincinnati Pencil Sharpener agency.
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