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It is on view everywhere, it is garlanded with flowers, offerings are made to it, it suffers no neglect. Commonly it is an upright stone, shaped like a thimble sometimes like an elongated thimble. This priapus-worship, then, is older than history. Mr. Parker says that the lingams in Benares "outnumber the inhabitants." In Benares there are many Mohammedan mosques.

He looked out at the flowers, and then at the harpsichord, and on her little walnut table, where her work-basket lay, and her thimble, and the little coral necklace a childish treasure that she used to wear when she was quite a little thing. It was like a dream; and everything seemed to say 'Poor little Lily!

"I heard of an editor in America," laughed Magsie, "who got his 'answers to correspondents' mixed up, and in reply to 'how to kill a plague of crickets' put 'rub their gums gently with a thimble, and if feverish, administer Perry's Teething Powders'; while to 'Anxious Mother of Twins', he gave the advice: 'Burn tobacco on a hot shovel, and the little pests will hop about and die as dead as door-nails'."

In a moment he would be within twenty feet of a blast of disintegration products capable of lifting the whole machine into the air, and it was to be started at his command, after he had worked and pottered for two years with a thermic inductor the size of a thimble!

Another booth held crepe paper for lampshades or other fancy work, and it was not long before every one had selected an occupation and was prepared to begin work. Elise, of course, was going to draw a picture, and Patty concluded she would trim a hat. As it neared the time, Patty threaded her needle and put on her thimble, but was not allowed to touch her material until the signal was given.

"And them little cookies you cut out of a thimble, you know," added Prudy, anxious to put in a word. "Hear me speak," said aunt Louise. "I hope Susy and Prudy don't think they are going to this picnic, for the truth is, they haven't been invited." "Not invited?" gasped Susy. "The note says, 'the Misses Parlin," said aunt Louise, gravely. "That might mean your grandmother, but it doesn't!

There are others curiously shaped, looking like coral sprays, and here and there they look like helmets; then there is another form that seems to have long fingers running out, and is called "mermaid's gloves." The form called "Venus flower-basket," large and basket-shaped, might answer for a mermaid's work-basket, and hold her thimble, scissors, and thread. You had better take care!

'She says she will do that to you, Wendy, every time I give you a thimble. 'But why? 'Why, Tink? Again Tink replied, 'You silly ass. Peter could not understand why, but Wendy understood; and she was just slightly disappointed when he admitted that he came to the nursery window not to see her but to listen to stories. 'You see I don't know any stories. None of the lost boys know any stories.

I was a-goin' upstairs to fetch my thimble, and there, on the bedroom landin', was master all alone, with one of Master Dick's toy-guns in his 'and, and a old slouch 'at on his head. "'Have you got a pass, cook? he says, and my 'art came right up into my mouth, he looked that severe and lofty at me. I thought he was put out about something."

"And why didn't you tell your mamma where the thimble was?" "I was afraid mamma throw all the soup away, and then I get none for dinner." "Oh! that was it, was it? Well, sir, I said you should have no dinner till the thimble was found, so, as it is found, you may have your dinner; but if you ever refuse to answer a question again, I shall punish you more severely."