1.   The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff.

2.   The trainer stands in front of the elephant holding a long stick with a sharp metal point.

3.   When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit.

4.   But the men and women, dressed in waders, who manipulate the puppets on long sticks are not seen until they take their bows.

5.   First they tried pushing it with a long stick, but when it did not open they abandoned even that modest precaution and kicked it down.

6.   For the traveling look, stuff a bandana and tie it to the end of a long stick to carry over your shoulder.

7.   If the ceiling is sagging, make a poker by attaching a nail to the end of a long stick.

8.   In one village, armed teen-agers strung a long stick between two trash dumpsters on the opposite sides of a road to serve as a crossing guard.

9.   Poking the contents around with a long stick, Moreno worried that uneven fermentation would have spoiled the batch.

10.   Still, the other day my curiosity got the best of me and I gently poked at the straw with a long stick.