thread-end

Updated: August 7, 2026

Every button was on, every thread-end knotted and clipped, and some tired workers lay down to rest, as did a very happy child and a very thankful old lady. Every one got away by ten o'clock the next morning. The last I saw of little Cora Belle was when they had reached the top of a long slope and Balaam had "stopped to rest."

Elinore Pruitt Stewart - Letters of a Woman Homesteader