The iron is rust eaten, and they would break in our hands before going into any one." "They would certainly be useless as daggers, Matteo, but I think that with care they will act as saws.

Break off a length of about a foot.
"Now straighten it, and tear a piece off your doublet and wrap it round and round one end, so that you can hold it.

Now just try it on the edge of a beam." "It certainly cuts," Matteo announced after a trial, "but not very fast." "So that it cuts at all, we may be very well content," Francis said cheerfully.

"We have got a week, at least, to work in; and if the wind is not favourable, we may have a month.

Let us therefore break the hoops up into pieces of the right length.