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But Tavia had made up her mind to precisely that thing. "I must sew the ribbons on Aunt Winnie's bag," went on Dorothy pleasantly after a pause. "Don't you think it pretty?" and she displayed a small bag made of white oiled silk and fitted up with all the little pockets needed in traveling.
'Better educate the boys, men said, 'and let the girls learn to cook and sew and to play the piano; that is all that will ever be required of them. But, in spite of every discouragement, the girls improved their opportunities so well that they were soon taking the prizes away from the boys.
Can't sew a gown for yerself neither, but bound to send it into town to be made for ye, and couldn't put a button on a pair of breeches for fear of 'urtin' yer delicate fingers! Well! God 'elp ye when the man comes as ye're lookin' for! He'll be a fool anyhow, for all men are that, but he'll be twice a fool if he takes you for a life-satchel on his shoulders!"
The whir of these machines is heard around the world everywhere the McCormick reaper is doing its share toward lightening man's labor. Another of the great victories of peace was won by Elias Howe, when, in 1844, he invented a machine which would sew.
Sweet but anyhow, good or no good, she dug up the tacks last night an' ripped the widths an' set down to sew this mornin'. Her story is as she turned the duck out to pasture right after breakfast an' then went to work an' sewed away as happy as a bean until about ten o'clock. Then she felt most awful tired from the rippin' an' yesterday an' all, so she thought she'd rest a little.
Milward impatiently, "but she has no way of getting about. Krauss takes the car and is away in it all day. I gather that he has the strict German idea about a girl's being brought up to cook, to sew, to slave, to find all her interests in her home!
I'm going to sew some yellow buttons on now, and black ones too, 'cause you lost some of the yellow ones." "Well, we won't shuck her any more," promised Russ. These were happy days at Grandma Bell's. Something new could be played by the children all the while. They loved it in the woods, and on the shores of beautiful Lake Sagatook.
The intersection of these two wireless compass bearings gives the position of the ship at sea. The radio compass is dependable day or night, and is said to be quite as reliable as a sextant or other navigating instruments. Sailmakers to repair airplane fabrics, to sew new covers for planes these men must find an opportunity in flying.
You had better, at your first halt, sew it under one of your patches. It is, as you see, written on a piece of linen, so that however closely you may be examined, there will be no stiffness or crackling, as would be the case with paper. "Now goodbye, Hilliard! It is a satisfaction to me that you have undertaken this journey on your own initiative, and on your own request.
"I might get a strip or two more off, but it's short enough already. Let's see; how long have I been a-wearin' of that shirt; oh, I remember, I bought it jist two days afore Five Bob was pupped. I can't afford a new shirt jist yet; howsomenever, seein' it's Brummy, I'll jist borrow a couple more strips and sew 'em on agen when I git home."
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