As his scroll-saw was just then the delight of Malcolm's heart, he felt particularly interested in butternuts, and immediately mapped out in his mind something very beautiful to be wrought with them for his governess.

A chisel is a knife, a plane is a knife set in a block of wood, a saw is a knife with the edge notched.

The saw used is 18 inches diameter, and on windy days saws as much wood as can be done by six horses working on a sweep power.

A saw was an article not to be replaced, short of a voyage to Europe, even; for in that day saws were not manufactured in America; nor, indeed, was scarcely anything else.