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... Pincushions • • Pomatum Landscapes 297 122 213 58 208 87 • 199 138 Poonah Painting 135 Purses 245 Push Pin 66 Puss , Puss in the Corner 17 Puzzles Puzzle Wall 147 56 Puzzle Word 14 Red - Cap Rabbit on the Wall Rice and Shell Baskets ...
... Pincushions • • Pomatum Landscapes 297 122 213 58 208 87 • 199 138 Poonah Painting 135 Purses 245 Push Pin 66 Puss , Puss in the Corner 17 Puzzles Puzzle Wall 147 56 Puzzle Word 14 Red - Cap Rabbit on the Wall Rice and Shell Baskets ...
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... pincushion together . I forgot to mention , that the lining of the bag must be hemmed , and left open below the strings . Five or six balls of cotton may be kept in the open spaces between the runnings , without any danger of becoming ...
... pincushion together . I forgot to mention , that the lining of the bag must be hemmed , and left open below the strings . Five or six balls of cotton may be kept in the open spaces between the runnings , without any danger of becoming ...
Page 199
... pincushion . On the other side , two or three leaves are placed for a needle - book , and loops made for a bodkin ... PINCUSHIONS . THE forms into which pincushions have been manufactured of late , are almost without number The most ...
... pincushion . On the other side , two or three leaves are placed for a needle - book , and loops made for a bodkin ... PINCUSHIONS . THE forms into which pincushions have been manufactured of late , are almost without number The most ...
Page 200
... pin- cushion may be made in the shape of a small easy - chair . There is an old fashioned kind of pincushion which looks rather clumsy , but it is extremely convenient for a journey . The cushion is nearly an inch thick ; no pasteboard ...
... pin- cushion may be made in the shape of a small easy - chair . There is an old fashioned kind of pincushion which looks rather clumsy , but it is extremely convenient for a journey . The cushion is nearly an inch thick ; no pasteboard ...
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... pincushion forms but half of the establishment . Flannel leaves are put in for needles , and the outside is of covered silk , with a little pocket for thread . This pocket consists of a plain piece of silk , nearly the size of the ...
... pincushion forms but half of the establishment . Flannel leaves are put in for needles , and the outside is of covered silk , with a little pocket for thread . This pocket consists of a plain piece of silk , nearly the size of the ...
Common terms and phrases
ALLSPICE amusement answer basket beads beautiful bees bird bottom Buff butterfly called catch centre circle colours cord corner Cupid comes dance diamond doll Duaterra edge engraving fairies Fanny fastened feather fingers flowers four French garden genteel Grand Mufti gum Arabic half hands HARRIET head heart hold holes HONEY POTS horn house that Jack imitate inch insects isinglass Jack built Jack Straws jardin JULIA knit lady laugh leaves letter little girls look love my love Lucy manner MARIA Marion Mary MILES TO BABYLON narrow neatly needle never Panjandrum paper pass pasteboard pay a forfeit Peter Piper piece pincushion play players pretty PUZZLES Queen rabbit Ratel ribbon Rose round says Serein sewed side silk sing sometimes SOPHIA spermaceti stick stitches straw string thing thread tree turn wand word Zealand
Popular passages
Page 95 - So he died, and .she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
Page 87 - As soon as the cat had lapped up the milk, the cat began to kill the rat ; the rat began to gnaw the rope ; the rope began to hang the butcher ; the butcher began to kill the ox ; the ox began to drink the water ; the water began to quench the fire ; the fire began to burn the stick ; the stick began to beat the dog ; the dog began to bite the pig ; the little pig in a fright jumped over the stile ; and so the old woman got home that night.
Page 85 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the farmer sowing his corn That kept the cock that crowed in the morn That waked the priest all shaven and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 85 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 78 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four- and -twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie! When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Page 94 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. " What
Page 85 - ... the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 280 - Rose talked to her, she wanted to go away in silence ; and when a pocket-mirror was found in her sister's room, broken into a thousand pieces, she felt sorely tempted to conceal that she did the mischief. But she was so anxious to be made beautiful, that she did as she would be done by. All the household remarked how Marion had changed. " I love her dearly," said Rose,
Page 90 - ROBERT ROWLEY rolled a round roll round, A round roll Robert Rowley rolled round ; Where rolled the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round ? CLXXVII.
Page 84 - HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT THIS is the house that Jack built. This is the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.