nail-puller

Mr. Hopsby took me around a corner before I started and, presenting me with a nail-puller, told me he was afraid he was doing wrong to send me out,

A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road"

—Three or four good axes, several bill-hooks, a good hatchet with hammer head and nail-puller should be in the tool kit.

Appendix B. The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness

TOOLS -- Three or four good axes, several bill-hooks, a good hatchet with hammer head and nail-puller should be in the tool kit.

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

He becomes an expert with a nail-puller, knows strictly fresh eggs from eggs, and learns how to adapt himself to the whims, caprices and notions of the customers who know little and assume much.

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