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They both understood that there was something fast in frequenting Mrs. Davis's inner parlour, something slow in remaining at home; and so they both sat there, and Mrs. Davis went on with her darning-needle, nothing abashed. 'Well, I think I shall go, said Scatterall, shaking off the last ash from the end of his third cigar.
She didn't believe in it, running round after a darning-needle and forty other things, the minute a thread broke, and dropping whatever else one had in hand, to let it ravel itself all out again; "she believed in a good big basket, in a dark closet, and laying up there for a rainy day, and being at peace in the pleasant weather.
But she really was lost. "I'm too fine for this world," she observed, as she lay in the gutter. "But I know who I am, and there's always something in that." So the Darning-Needle kept her proud behavior, and did not lose her good humor. And things of many kinds swam over her chips and straws and pieces of old newspapers. "Only look how they sail!" said the Darning-Needle.
Martha looked at him with a queer shyness in her married eyes, then tossed her head a little and thrust her darning-needle into the gray stocking with a jaunty air. "That's what you used to say," she said. After a while, noticing his tired lounge in the old chair, she said kindly, "Why did you stay so long at Dr. Lavendar's, Willy? You look tired. Do go to bed."
"You two hubbies, you had better lay aside the darning-needle and seize the pie plate," he said, fanning himself with Roxanne's scissors. "We've just decided in Scout Council to take the Palefaces out to the Harpeth ridge to hunt spring shoots and roots, and we always count on you for pies, Roxy, Stocking-darner."
But her thoughts were evidently not upon the service, for she knelt in the wrong place, and once said aloud in her abstraction, "Let us pray," and there was a twinkle in her round bright eyes, and a grim smile on her face when she at last arose, and straight and stiff as a darning-needle walked up the aisle, and took in her arms the little pink and white baby who was to bear her name.
Yet she has only a beak for a shuttle or darning-needle whichever you please to call it. I think it is most like the needle of a sewing-machine, with the eye at the point, so that it pokes the thread through as it goes into the cloth, instead of pulling it through with the other end." The Orchard Oriole Length seven inches. Male: black; the rump, breast, belly, and lesser wing-coverts chestnut.
It was dirty work, but they took great delight in it. "Oh!" cried one, who had pricked himself with the Darning-Needle. "There's a fellow for you." "I'm not a fellow, I'm a young lady," said the Darning-Needle. But nobody listened to her. The sealing wax had come off, and she had turned black; but black makes one look slender, and she thought herself finer even than before.
You must take pains to grow, for it is not every one who has sealing-wax dropped upon him;" and as she spoke, the darning-needle drew herself up so proudly that she fell out of the handkerchief right into the sink, which the cook was cleaning. "Now I am going on a journey," said the needle, as she floated away with the dirty water, "I do hope I shall not be lost."
'Twas boasting, and boasting, and nothing but boasting, and so away I went." "And now we sit here and glitter," said the broken glass bottle. At the same moment more water came along the gutter; it streamed over the sides and carried the bit of bottle away with it. "Well, that's an advancement," said the darning-needle.
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