They simply open piggy's head with a pick-axe or other handy instrument, introduce a handful or two of salt, close up the head again, and piggy is all right.

It was "part of Froebel's plan to have us work with spade and pick-axe," and every boy had his own piece of ground where he might do what he pleased.

Then I wanted a pick-axe, but for long I could not think how I was to get one.

These I heated in the fire, and, little by little, shaped them till I made a pick-axe, proper enough, though heavy.

Dear Miss H. Thank you for a noble Goose, which wanted only the massive Encrustation that we used to pick-axe open about this season in old Gloster Place.

A few days before, the gravedigger, while digging up the whitened bones of the ancient dead, had broken up with his pick-axe a mouldering coffin, and a head rolled to his feet It was of later date, for the lower jaw was still fastened to it and it had not the calcareous colour of bones buried long ago.

And this put me in mind that I wanted many things, notwithstanding all that I had amassed together; and of these, this of ink was one; as also a spade, pick-axe, and shovel, to dig or remove the earth; needles, pins, and thread: as for linen, I soon learned to want that without much difficulty.

a pick-axe, a shovel, and a wheel-barrow, or basket; so I desisted from my work, and began to consider how to supply these wants, and make me some tools.

As for a pick-axe, I made use of the iron crows, which were proper enough, though heavy: but, the next thing was a shovel or spade; this was so absolutely necessary, that, indeed, I could do nothing effectually without it; but what kind of one to make I knew not.

In addition to partial chambers made with the pick-axe, one sees here and there a series of stairs cut out of the mica-schist.

Part of that night Colonel Conwell spent in prayer; early next morning he appeared with a pick-axe and a woodman's axe and marched upon that devoted old meeting-house, as he had marched against Hood's intrenchments before Atlanta.

He stared a moment, and said, 'What in the name of goodness are you doing here?'" "'We are going to have a new meeting-house here,' was the reply, as the pick-axe tore away the side of a window-frame for emphasis.

I have seen an Italian workman throw his pick-axe at him, and then take to his heels in grotesque flight.

But the pick-axe missed him, as did many another clumsily hurled missile.

And on the instant, driving furiously with pick-axe, he struck the first blow.

The major replied nothing, but his pick-axe flailed into the cement with desperate energy.

All at once Dr. Lombardo stood up, pick-axe in hand, fully exposed to rifle-fire.

" He examined it a moment or two longer, noting with care the gashes and deep cuts made by the frantic strokes of Dr. Lombardo's pick-axe.

Within the twelvemonth, in a stony nullah, hard by a clump of crooked saul-trees, a mile away from the Baboo's gate, some jackals brought to light the bones of a little child; and the deep grave from which they dug them with their sharp, busy claws, bore marks of the mystic pick-axe of Thuggee.

The soil crumbles so easily, that no row of excavations one above another could be made in it; for the stroke of the pick-axe brings it down in loose masses.