They are very fair specimens of cutlery; and there are only about twenty tools wanting to make a complete set; but there is one defect in them as carving-tools." "What is that ?" "They are useless.

You can't carve wood with them.

None but a practical carver can design these tools, and then he must invent and make the steel molds first.

Try and sell them in London or Paris, you'll soon find the difference.

Mr.Bayne, I wonder you should call me from my forge to examine 'prentice-work." And, with this, he walked off disdainfully, but not quite easy in his mind, for he had noticed a greedy twinkle in Cheetham's eye.
The next day all the grinders in Mr.Cheetham's employ, except the scissors-grinders, rose, all of a sudden, like a flock of partridges, and went out into the road.
"What is up now ?" inquired Bayne.