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Updated: May 5, 2025
The good Lord took the trouble to make me, and it seems kind of onjustifiable for me to prove He plumb wasted His time. You tell Maggy I done it for her. I ain't hidin' my light under a bushel, because I need it to see by. Ouch! says he. 'This racket hurts! "I reckon it did. I sewed him up with a piece of deer-sinew and a darning-needle.
There was only one way to advance, and that was to wade in the middle of the brook, stooping low, lifting up the pendulous alder-branches, threading a tortuous course, now under and now over the innumerable obstacles, as a darning-needle is pushed in and out through the yarn of a woollen stocking. It was dark and lonely in that difficult passage.
"White walls, and I am black myself," said the darning-needle, "that looks well; now I can be seen, but I hope I shall not be sea-sick, or I shall break again." She was not sea-sick, and she did not break. "It is a good thing against sea-sickness to have a steel stomach, and not to forget one's own importance. Now my sea-sickness has past: delicate people can bear a great deal."
Gray nearly stepped upon the bundle, having large feet, and the way of walking which covers a good deal of ground to right and left, a way which plough-driving teaches. Mrs Gray heard an exclamation. And then Gray came in, and, as I have said, did his best to impale the bundle, baby and all, on the top of his wife's darning-needle.
I worked hard every day to put the linen in order. I didn't want Pauline to take away a single piece of torn linen with her, I worked hard with my darning-needle, as Bonne Justine had taught me, and I folded every piece as well as I could. In the evening I found Eugène sitting on the bench by the door.
The darning-needle spoke to it, because it sparkled, and represented herself as a breast-pin. "I suppose you are really a diamond?" she said. "Why yes, something of the kind," he replied; and so each believed the other to be very valuable, and then they began to talk about the world, and the conceited people in it.
"Bo, have you any hurts?" queried Helen, who still sat her horse, loath to try dismounting, yet wanting to beyond all words. Bo gave her an eloquent glance. "Nell, did you have one in your side, like a wicked, long darning-needle, punching deep when you weren't ready?" "That one I'll never get over!" exclaimed Helen, softly.
But as he was always spending money, and never made any more, at last the day came when he had nothing left but two shillings, and he had to leave the beautiful rooms in which he had been living, and go into a little attic under the roof, and clean his own boots, and mend them with a darning-needle. None of his friends came to visit him there, for there were too many stairs to climb.
You must take pains to make it grow, for it is not everyone who has a head of sealing-wax. And so saying the Darning-needle raised herself up so proudly that she fell out of the dress, right into the sink which the cook was rinsing out. 'Now I am off on my travels! said the Darning-needle. 'I do hope I sha'n't get lost! She did indeed get lost.
'I am too fine for this world! said she as she lay in the gutter; 'but I know who I am, and that is always a little satisfaction! And the Darning-needle kept her proud bearing and did not lose her good-temper. All kinds of things swam over her shavings, bits of straw, and scraps of old newspapers. 'Just look how they sail along! said the Darning-needle. 'They don't know what is underneath them!
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