One day his employer had engaged a carpenter to make him a counter, but the man instead of attending to his work had been off on a drunken spree, and neglected to do the job.

Not long after this, Hudson ordered the carpenter to go on shore, and build a house, or hut, for the accommodation of the crew.

And if I did not come to a senate-house in this state, he, on the first of September, said that he would send carpenters and pull down my house.

Now, the second mate and the bo'sun set the carpenter to work upon the spare topmast, bidding him make for it some trestle-trees and bolsters, upon which to lay the eyes of the rigging; but they did not trouble him to shape it.

" "I should like to take all these books and papers," said I. "Ask the carpenter how much time we have.

The doors and windows we employed our carpenter to make, these being luxuries quite beyond the comprehension of the natives.

When He wills to answer prayer, there will be found both carpenter and screws in their season, I trow.

She has been dead for some years; she married a carpenter whom father employed on the placea poor white man from New York.

A sentry was appointed on shore to protect the carpenters, and at night four of our people slept close at hand: during the day a masthead watch was kept to prevent surprise, for the grass about us was so high that they might have approached unperceived and wounded some of our people before we could have been aware of their presence.

At low water a deep hole was dug under her bottom, to enable the carpenter to work with his auger; and this operation was necessarily renewed every tide, since the hole was always found filled up after the high water.

"There is three feet of water in the hold, sir and it is gaining!" shouted the carpenter at the pump-well.

This business being accomplished, he found Lon Taft at the hotel and instructed the carpenter to put rows of windows on both sides of the shed and to build partitions for an editorial office and a business office at the front.

"Did you ever happen to know a man by the name of FrumpAmos Frumpwho was a miner there?" "Frump!" replied the carpenter.

" "Who was it?" demanded the carpenter indignantly.

"You may generally tell what a man is by his claws," observed the hedge-carpenter, looking at his own hands.

You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe, chopping upward chips from a beam.

Presently there were involved the carpenters, masons and machinists in a general demand for a ten-hour day.

When all the material had been landed our skilled carpenters, Olav Bjaaland and Jorgen Stubberud, began building the house.

This unfortunately lacked a lid; to procure which I was obliged, in the first place, to liberate a carpenter who had been imprisoned for a small debt; secondly, to advance money for the purchase of a board and the redemption of his tools out of pawn; and even then the work, when it was begun, was several times broken off because previous claims of violent creditors had to be discharged by labor.

Next door lives a carpenter, "famed ten miles around, and worthy all his fame," with his excellent wife and their little daughter Lizzy, the plaything and queen of the villagea child three years old according to the register, but six in size and strength and intellect, in power and self-will.

At this place we had the misfortune to lose by death our carpenter, Mr. Raymond.

I remember meeting personally a poor carpenter of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was out of work and in poverty.

"I would like to speak a word with you, sir," said Matthew, in a low voice, motioning the carpenter to accompany him to a corner of the piazza, out of the widow's possible hearing.

And you, Master Amoretto, that art the chief carpenter of sonnets, a privileged vicar for the lawless marriage of ink and paper, you that are good for nothing but to commend in a set speech, to colour the quantity of your mistress's stool, and swear it is most sweet civet; it's fine, when that puppet-player Fortune must put such a Birchen-Lane post in so good a suit, such an ass in so good fortune! AMORETTO.

Presently his eye was caught by a paragraph narrating an odd calamity which had overtaken a scene carpenter, an honest, respectable, sober, hard-working man, who had fulfilled all social obligations as perfectly as the most exacting could desire, until the day he had conceived the idea of a machine for the better exhibition of advertisements on the hoardings.