There was a large, and what farmers would call handsome, barn, part of whose boards had been sawed by a whip-saw; and the saw-pit, with its great pile of dust, remained before the house.

There stood old Honeycutt, tremblingly upheld upon his sawed-off broom-handle.

In his trembling hands was a double-barrelled shotgun, sawed off and doubtless loaded to the muzzle with buckshot.

He had been a cab horse, and his mouth had been jerked, and twisted, and sawed at, till one would think there could be no feeling left in it; still I have seen him wince and curl up his lip when Jenkins thrust in the frosty bit on a winter's morning.

"Yes, Madame, I sawed him.

" "You sawed 'im?

To judge by the way he sawed, that blade was too dull to cut butter.

"It is a simple and naive story," began Tutt, seating himself in the chair reserved for paying clientsthat is to say, one which did not have the two front legs sawed off an inch or so in order to make lingering uncomfortable.

[Illustration: Fig 12.The Right femur sawed in two, lengthwise.

Have the bone sawed in two, lengthwise, keeping the marrow in place.

Sawed-Off bumped into him, and Jumbo tripped over Sawed-Off; but B.J. commanded them to be silent so sharply that they paused where they had fallen and listened violently.

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.

The only occupant of the chapel, except at morning prayers and on Sundays, was Sawed-Off.

So they all left the gymnasium with its prisoners, and Sawed-Off locked the door firmly behind him.

It occurred to Sawed-Off, however, that before they sent back an indignant refusal to play, they might as well look up the record of the deaf-and-dumb basket-ball men.

Sawed-Off was in so many places at once, and kept all four limbs going so violently, that the spectators began to cheer him on as "Granddaddy Longlegs."

Finally January was gone, and February, that sawed-off month, was dawdling along its way toward that great occasion which gives it its chief excuse for being on the calendarWashington's Birthday.

The only Lakerim men on the Kingston team were Tug, the chief, who had been a great runner of 440-yard races, and Sawed-Off, who had won the half-mile event on various field-days.

The grove was so blind (save for the little clearing at Roden's Knoll, which Tug and Sawed-Off recognized with a groan of pride) that the men's shins were barked and their ankles turned at almost every other step, it seemed.

The huge Sawed-Off suffered most from these barbs, but he only gasped: "I'm punctured.

It was hard work to get it open; it had to be sawed.

It was built entirely with his own hands, of cedar rails and white-pine planks, which he had cut and sawed from trees that his own hands had felled.

This day I went on board, and with my saw sawed off one of the beams, which kept her quarter-deck.

May 5. 'This day I also repaired to the wreck, and sawed another piece of timber, and when the flood came, I made a float of three great planks, which were driven ashore by the tide.

They were building a house of the blocks which had been sawed off from the ends of the timbers.