He gimme a baynit an' learned me to stob dummies wid it over at Camp Oglethorpe, ontil he felt lak I had de heart to stob anything; 'n' 'en he sont me acrost.

He gimme a baynit an' learned me to stob dummies wid it over at Camp Oglethorpe, ontil he felt lak I had de heart to stob anything; 'n' 'en he sont me acrost.

ex Stob.]

The man, my boss, said, 'Mack, get the rope behind the boiler and tie it to the stob and 'dead man'.

I tied it to the stob and I was looking for a dead man.

He would take his knife and stob my risings to see the matter pop way out.

They drove up a stob, nailed a piece to a tree stacked their guns.

All that we did it for was to run in close to look at some "stobs" just showing above the water.

At the mouths of most of the creeks along the James are such "stobs" or broken pilings.

The Commodore quite likely did breathe audibly now and then; but Nautica was wide awake, as shown by her announcing with feeling and frequency that "she knew we were dragging anchor and were just about to be horribly wrecked upon rocks or 'stobs' or something or other.

ex Stob.]