There was nothing expensive, of course, but each had been chosen to fit the taste and liking of the recipient and there was no doubt that each choice was a success.

Isaiah proudly displayed a jacknife which was a small toolchest, having four blades, a corkscrew, a screwdriver, a chisel, a button-hook and goodness knows what else besides.
"Look at that!" crowed Isaiah, exhibiting the knife, bristling like a porcupine, on his open palm.

"Look at it! By time, there ain't nothin' I can't do with that knife! Every time I look at it I find somethin' new.

Now, I wonder what that is," pointing to a particularly large and ferocious-looking implement which projected from the steel tangle.

"I cal'late I've sized up about everything else, but I can't seem to make out what that's for.