You wouldn't come to see your neighbor so he decided to come to see you.

Good communications correct evil manners.
See this ?" He held up a steel pronged instrument about six inches long.
"This was once a fork, a fork for eating, large and crude, I grant you, but a fork.

It took me more than a month to steal it, that is I had to wait for a time when I was sure that the soldier who brought my food was so lazy or so stupid that he would not miss it.

I waited another week as an additional precaution, and after that my task was easy.

If the best watch, clock and instrument maker in the State of Maine couldn't pick any lock with a fork it was time for him to lie on his back and die.