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It was with a dark foreboding that she returned to the kitchen and turned on one of the taps. For perhaps three seconds a stream of the dimension of a darning-needle emerged, then with a sad gurgle the tap relapsed into a stolid inaction. There is no stolidity so utter as that of a waterless tap. 'Confound it! said Elizabeth. She passed through the dining-room to the foot of the stairs. 'Nutty!
"ONE time," said Uncle Remus adjusting his spectacles so as to be able to see how to thread a large darning-needle with which he was patching his coat "one time, way back yander, 'fo' you wuz bomed, honey, en 'fo' Mars John er Miss Sally wuz bomed way back yander 'fo' enny un us wuz bomed, de animils en de creeturs sorter 'lecshuneer roun' 'mong deyselves, twel at las' dey 'greed fer ter have a 'sembly.
"Just the way I feel," said Henry. "I wish he'd kept his news to himself. It wasn't legal, anyhow." "You don't suppose it will make the will not stand!" cried Sylvia, with involuntary eagerness. Then she quailed before her husband's stern gaze. "Of course I know it won't make any difference," she said, feebly, and drew her darning-needle through the sock she was mending.
'Here comes an egg-shell sailing along! said the boys, and they stuck the Darning-needle into the egg-shell. 'The walls white and I black what a pretty contrast it makes! said the Darning-needle. 'Now I can be seen to advantage! If only I am not sea-sick! I should give myself up for lost! But she was not sea-sick, and did not give herself up.
Alongside them a devil's darning-needle of a wireless mast stuck up, one hundred and odd feet, toward the sky. It was stayed with many steel guy ropes, like the center pole of a circus top.
"Well, it will do now," growled the Ogress, feeling the edge of the blade with her horny finger; and, having seen the darning-needle once more at work, she went to fetch up one of the children. As she went, she hummed what cookmaids sing "Dilly, dilly duckling, come and be killed!" But it sounded like the wheezing and groaning of a heavy old door upon its rusty hinges.
'One stocking with a rusty darning-needle sticking in it. Five apples, two mouldy. A square of hardbake. An old neck-ribbon. An odd cuff. Seven letters. A knife, with the blade broken. A bundle of pen-and-ink well, I suppose they are meant for sketches. 'Hand them over to me, commanded Miss Pew.
Dayton, however, furnished him with a large darning-needle, which, as soon as I felt going through my skin, I thought was more like a gimlet boring into me; but, with the help of a glass of wine, I grinned and bore it, until he took a few stitches in the wound. So much for crabbing. "I was at New-York about a fortnight since, on my way to Jamaica, Long Island.
"I was sure I should be raised to honor: if one is something, one is sure to get on!" and at the same time it laughed inwardly; for one can never see when a darning-needle laughs. So there it sat now as proudly as in a state-carriage, and looked around on every side. "May I take the liberty to inquire if you are of gold?" asked the needle of a pin that was its neighbor.
Raspberries and blackberries are best; huckleberries are excellent for pies, and easily canned. Pie-plant can be stewed till tender. It requires half a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit. For peaches, gages, &c, allow the same amount of sugar as for raspberries. Pare peaches, and can whole or in halves as preferred. Prick plums and gages with a large darning-needle to prevent their bursting.
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