In "Put the things in the tool-box" it likely means tools.

Lister sat on a tool-box, an old pipe in his mouth, and was happier than he had been for long.

Brown, sitting on a tool-box, studied a plan of the wreck Cartwright had given him, and Lister thought it typical Cartwright had got the plan.

The automobile really was a "magnificent animal," as Aunt Lil said, and it took her just two minutes, after examining it from bonnet to tool-boxes, to make up her mind that she could not be happy without it.

They are said to be just the thing to carry in the tool-box in case of a breakdown.

Then he got a hammer and sledge out of the engine tool-box, and after hooking up the safety-chain couplings between the private car and the 1010, he crippled the points of the hooks with the hammer so that they could not be disengaged without the use of force and the proper tools.

"Don't you see you're on the wrong division?" Callahan gave the throttle-bar another outward hitch, tipped his seat and took a hammer from the tool-box.

"Yes," Mrs. Todd concluded, "he says he thinks of buying one himself to carry in his tool-box.

"Well?" "You ought to buy a little old used car like this some time to carry in your tool-box.

I'll show you how the thing works. (Gets the gun from tool-box.)

Often, when it was not in use, I walked to the lawnmower and even laid my hand upon the tool-box.

He looked questioningly about the four walls, discovered a cleverly contrived tool-box beneath the cupboard shelves, sorted out a pair of pincers and bits of iron, laying the latter in a row over the oil blaze.