big George sat whittling a stick into a grotesque imitation of a snake coiled.

"I should guess not," said the other, whittling his chair,"seems to me as if some of these old Creoles would liever live in a crawfish hole than to have a neighbor" "You know what make old Jean Poquelin make like that?

She could see Israel Grossman sitting on a stump, whittling a stick and puffing away at a short pipe.

The freckle-faced boy looked up from his whittling when the shadow of Bull fell athwart him, with an equal admiration; also with suspicion, for the cowpunchers, on the whole, were apt to make game of the youngster and his grave, grown-up ways.

Woe to him if he ever brought a splinter of whittling, or a fragment of nutshell, into the distressingly neat kitchen!

When West awoke, Morse was whittling on a piece of wood with his sharp hunting-knife.

Stephen was whittling Miss Mimy's portrait on the end of a stick, and laughing.

As a substitute, now, he picked up a forked bit of branch, and began whittling it.

[Illustration] [Illustration] THE HAPPY RATTLE Willie Woodchuck sat at the entrance of his burrow home whittling upon a tiny dried gourd.

"Oh, I am just whittling because I have nothing else to do!" replied Willie Woodchuck.

"Willie Woodchuck is whittling because he has nothing else to do!" said Timothy Toad.

"Willie Woodchuck is whittling because he has nothing better to do!" said Timothy Toad.

"Willie Woodchuck is whittling because he has nothing better to do!" said Timothy Toad.

"Willie Woodchuck is whittling because he has nothing else to do!" said Timothy Toad.

Timothy Toad cried, "Willie Woodchuck is, whittling because he has nothing else to do!"

"Willie Woodchuck is whittling on a rattle!"

"Willie Woodchuck is whittling on a beautiful red and black rattle!" said Gerty Gartersnake.

"Willie Woodchuck is whittling on a rattle and it is blue, red and black and rattles beautifully.

"Willie Woodchuck is whittling on a beautiful yellow and blue and red and black rattle and it rattles beautifully.

Nor would the veriest idler, who passes a whole day in whittling a stick, if he could be brought to look into himself, deny it.

So far from having no object, he would and must acknowledge that he was in fact hoping to relieve himself of an oppressive portion of time by whittling away its minutes and hours.

TANGERMAN, ELMER J. Whittling and woodcarving.

Ben Hunt's whittling book.

Ben Hunt's whittling book.

Whittling boy, the story of Eli Whitney.