The coastal slopes and valleys are dotted with timber claims which have been purchased by men and corporations in Vancouver and New York and London and Paris and Berlin, bought and traded "sight unseen" as small boys swap jackknives.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
3. The old schoolhouse is altered some; The benches are replaced By new ones very like the same Our jackknives had defaced.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
They built a "shanty" of the boards which grandpa was saving to mend the fence, and in this shanty they "kept store," trading in crooked pins, home-made toys, twine, and jackknives.
"Captain Horace"
Sophie May