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tools, obeying his will, true to his
...his own affairs since the bite at noon — would have cut short those affairs, or deserted them, had he known Da was home and at work. Next to the boy’s absorption in puttering for himself with a tool, was the bliss of watching another. Hour on hour thus could pass, with Da — say — cutting a bit of wire, bending and rebending it with pliers, with the pertinacity of the craftsman ultimately ...
...under twenty, mechanic in the workshop — beckoning paradise! In Sherry’s own hands now the tools that so fascinated him the days of Da’s puttering and tinkering. Magical tools in his own nimble young fingers, obeying his will, true to his...
— two putterings, respectively pages 21 and 91, in
George Madden Martin her Made in America (1935)
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