handy

Marvellous places, though handy to home!

Hammond from up the river came down and said she’d take me, seeing I was handy with children, and I went up the river to live with her in a little clearing among the stumps.

“I--I thought it might come in handy sometime,” said Matthew, making good his escape.

I was a strollin’ down, thinkin’ between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.