I had a job to loosen it, but there it is.

The pegs I whittled out of that log." "And what are they for ?" "Well, you see, peg number one goes in here, where I have picked a hole between the stones.

Then I've made this other log into a mallet, and with two cracks there it is firm fixed, so that you can put your weight on it.

Now these two go in the same way into the holes above here.
So! Now, you see, you can stand up there and look out of that window without asking too much of your toe joint.

Try it." De Catinat sprang up and looked eagerly out between the bars.
"I do not know the place," said he, shaking his head.
"It may be any one of thirty castles which lie upon the south side of Paris, and within six or seven leagues of it.