He has long black whiskers, which gives him a rather fierce look when observed closely, strong claws, sharp as fish-hooks, and the brightest of bright eyes, full of telling speculation.

Ford Foster came out, of his own accord, with the secret of the box; for he now took a little key out of his pocket, and unlocked it with an air of "Look at this, will you?" Dab Kinzer looked, and was very sure he had never before seen quite such an assortment of brand-new fish-hooks, of many sorts and sizes, and of fish-lines which looked as if they had thus far spent their lives on dry land.

'You'll get those fish-hooks into your trousers, sir; and this is a poor place to sit down in.'

The Prussians occupied the outer fish-hook line, the Austrians the inner.

"I chipped a piece of wood from the coffin, and tied it to a long string, like a fly to a fish-hook.

There was a little pause while Jumbo helped the lubberly Sawed-Off through the strands that had laid hold of his big frame like fish-hooks.

Put him down there without any capitalsimply a naked, featherless, two-legged and two-handed, animal, without clothes, without a gun or a fish-hook, without hoe, or hatchet, or knife, or rusty nail, without a particle of food to keep him from fainting, and what will become of him?

Two nights arterwards she found a fish-hook in my trouser-pocket, and arter that I could ha' left untold gold thereif

"Wal, boy, want to get a fish-hook?"

Ken disclaimed any desire for the fish-hook, and said he wanted to ask about a boat.

And having put the packages into a canvas bag, and selected some fish-hooks and lines from the show-case, where they lay environed by jackknives, jewsharps, and gum-dropsdear to the eyes of his childhoodhe paid what was due, said "Good-night, William," to the storekeeper, and walked steadily out into the night.

We were puzzling over the word "socdollager," which Bartlett, we think, defines as "Anything very large and striking,"Anglicé, a "whopper,""also a peculiar fish-hook."

Life has become a kind of a circus where only the favored can pay the price of admission, an' here in America, where about all the great men we have had were bred in cabins, an' everything worth a fish-hook came out o' poverty!

On these last voyages, he carried over Kannakas as passengers, as well as various small articles, such as fish-hooks, old iron, hatchets even, and now and then a little tobacco.

Obstacles arisinglast night we got amongst sastrugithey increased in height this morning and now we are in the midst of a sea of fish-hook waves well remembered from our Northern experience.

For meat the rubber hunter and explorer depends upon his rifle and fish-hook.

We were ascending a hill, for the purpose of inspecting a New Zealand fortification on the summit, when a little boy joined our party, either out of curiosity, or in hopes of getting a fish-hook from usa thing the natives are continually asking for; but as we had a man with us who spoke the language fluently, we did not much regard the boy's guidance, though to us it speedily became of great importance.

Peaches and water melons now were in full season; the natives brought baskets full of them to our door every day, which they exchanged with us for the merest trifles, such as a fish-hook, or a button.

In Lewis and Clark's account of their expedition across the American Continent they came to the conclusion that there was an utter absence of regard for chastity "among all Indians," and they relate the following as a sample (439): "Among all the tribes, a man will lend his wife or daughter for a fish-hook or a strand of beads.

An Australian has been known to bait his fish-hook with his own child when no other meat was at hand; and murders committed for equally trivial and selfish reasons are every-day affairs among wild tribes.

When they came into camp that day he was explaining to Celebrate a plan for catching wild geese with fish-hooks baited with corn, and that evening came to me to see if he couldn't borrow a long fish-line.

"I can ketch meat for a dozen outfits with it," he said, "if I can borrow a fish-hook.

46 adzes. 3,200 fish-hooks. 24 bullet moulds. 1,500 flints.

We distributed among them some iron-hoop, knives, fish-hooks, and calico, to which I added a quantity of useful seeds,* which last were eagerly sought after when their use had been explained and understood.

" "Oh!" said Jone, and that was all he did say, which was very wise in him, for, considering my state of feelings, his case was like a fish-hook in your fingerthe more you pull and worry at it the harder it is to get out.