and in a day or two more the shopkeeper undertook to show me how the work should be done. I protested I never could learn it.
“You don’t try; and I have a good mind to punish you.”
The moment the shop-keeper said it I dropped the snath, raised my axe, and told him that if he came one step nearer to me I would make mincemeat of him. He thought it was advisable to stay where he was; but one of the prison-keepers was in the shop,
and in a day or two more the shopkeeper undertook to show me how the work should be done. I protested I never could learn it.
“You don’t try; and I have a good mind to punish you.”
The moment the shop-keeper said it I dropped the snath, raised my axe, and told him that if he came one step nearer to me I would make mincemeat of him. He thought it was advisable to stay where he was; but one of the prison-keepers was in the shop,
