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Updated: May 3, 2025
When the liquid and the "skeeter" had passed into Tim's stomach he enlightened the inquirer. "Ye dunno what's a devil's darnin' needle? Gosh! I'm s'prised at ye. I seen lots of 'em right on this here river.
About once a month we had Lindy with us, for three or four days at a stretch, and durin' that time she'd be gallopin' through all kinds of work, from darnin' my socks or rippin' up an old skirt, to embroiderin' the fam'ly monogram on the comp'ny tablecloths; all for a dollar'n a half per, which I understand is under union rates.
"Doctor," sais I, "it tante every darnin' needle would reach her through them petticoats, is it?" "Oh!" said he, "Mr Slick oh!" and he rose as usual, stooped forward, pressed his hands on his ribs, and ran round the room, if not at the imminent risk of his life, certainly to the great danger of the spinning wheel and the goslings.
And Josiah sez to me, "I thought the hull dumb world wuz there outside in the road, and here there is ten times as many in here." And I sez, "Yes, Josiah, be careful and not lose me, for I feel like a needle in a hay mow." He looked down on me and sort a smiled. I s'pose it wuz because I compared myself to a needle, and he sez, "A cambric needle, or a darnin' needle?"
Mullen's this morning," she explained, "an' she told me her eyesight was failing, so I offered to do her darnin'." Slipping a small round gourd into the toe of a man's black sock, she examined it attentively, with her needle poised in the lamplight.
An' then she looks down at the table-cloth 'It wants darnin', says she. "Tis easy seen as a woman's hands be needed here. "'They are, truly, says he, lookin' at her so wistful-like. "'Well, we'll see, says she, noddin' at him very kind." "An' did she really look over everything Mrs. Domeny, my dear?" interrupted Mrs. Cross eagerly. "She must ha' been a wonderful sensible woman!"
I had him when he was a two year old, all legs and tail, like a devil's darnin needle, and had him broke on purpose by father's old nigger, January Snow. He knows English real well, and can do near about any thing but speak it. He helped me once to ginn a Blue Nose a proper handsum quiltin. He must have stood a poor chance indeed, said I, a horse kickin, and a man striking him at the same time.
"Well, if he niver does no worse than that I'll not be complainin', but sure and he can make more darnin' than Pat and Moike and Andy put together." Why are the winds of March so high? This spring they blew a gale. As they roared around corners and through tree tops and rushed down the streets with fury they made pedestrians unsteady.
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