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The Sagamore feeds me; and the Middle Fort is not so far." "And at the Middle Fort how will you live?" "As I have lived; wash for the soldiers; sew for them contrive to find a living as I journey." "Whither?" "It is my own affair." "May I not aid?" "You could not if you would; you would not if you could." "Ask me, Lois." "No." She shook her head. Then, slowly: "I do thank you for the wish, Mr.
The dwarfs talked a little while together, and then one said, "Do you think you could be our little housekeeper, to make the beds, cook the dinner, and wash and sew and knit for us, and keep everything neat and clean and orderly? If you can, then you shall stay here with us, and nobody shall hurt you." "Oh yes, I will try," said Snow-white. So they let her stay, and she was a clever little thing.
He had to teach her how to make a patch, and how to sew a sole on, and she helped him with his work. "Now you are the master and I'm the journeyman!" she would say delightedly. She brought him customers too; her ambition was to keep him always at home. "I'll help you all I can. And one fine day you'll have so much work you'll have to take an apprentice and then a journeyman."
Then, about fourteen thousand six hundred and twenty-two black ants took each a long, sharp pine needle, and threading it with grass, they began to sew up the rips and tears in Uncle Wiggily's coat. And in places where they could not easily sew they stuck the cloth together with sticky gum from the pine tree.
After this operation, which makes me laugh to this day when I remember it, I took the scraps I had bought and said to the tailor, "Now, 'gossip, it is your turn; I want you to sew in these pieces into the holes I have made, and I hope your tailoring genius will aid you to produce some pretty contrasts. You see that you have got your work cut out for you and no time to lose.
Didn't I sew him up in a bread-bag, and didn't he come back just as nothing had happened; and didn't the corporal launch him into a surge over the taffrail, and he comes back just as if nothing had happened? Well, then, one thing is clear; that his power be on the water, and no water will drown that ere imp, so it's no use trying no more in that way, for he be a sea-devil.
Brown brought his edges together, 'n' she says he says 't jus' as soon 's he ain't so stiff 'n' sore about leanin' over he 's goin' to take all them stitches out 'n' sew himself up the way 't he 'd ought to be sewed." Mrs. Lathrop turned a little in bed. Again the cracking noise might be heard, but neither one of the friends had mental leisure to notice it. "Mr.
Then he gave me another sharp look out of his eyes, and said: "I don't think you meant that to be quite so impertinent as it sounded, Mary, so we'll let it pass this time. I'll put my question this way: Don't you ever knit or read or sew?" "I do sew every day in Aunt Jane's room, ten minutes hemming, ten minutes seaming, and ten minutes basting patchwork squares together.
"Well, I tell you, Mr. McNally, we can't sell." "Why not?" "Outside of the original terms and they sew us up we never could get it through the Council." McNally folded his hands on the table and looked at Blaney with twinkling eyes. "That's all rot, Blaney." "No, it ain't. The boys are right with Weeks." "See here, Blaney. You just stop and ask yourself what Weeks has done for you.
They tried to teach her to sew, but she was a lazy little thing, he remembered, with an indulgent smile. And he was "Uncle Dan." So now she was grown up, quite a woman: in those years, when she had been with her kinsfolk in New York, she had been taught to sing. Well, well!
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