Having secured the cups for five cents each, they cut the handles with a pair of tinners' "snips."

A couple of snips with a sharp pair of strong nail-scissors make a slit in the two jesses.

They do not hear the men beyond their parapets lying on their stomachs and busily cutting the wires with their snips.

I got the scissors, and in six snips had it off, a big tangled pile of brownish gold, rather bleached out by the sun at the ends.