Feather!' the Sheep cried again, taking more needles.
'Are you a child or a teetotum?' the Sheep said, as she took up another pair of needles.
'Didn't you hear me say "Feather"?' the Sheep cried angrily, taking up quite a bunch of needles.
He said the colors were pricked into the skin with needles, and that the operation was somewhat painful.
So she was given three large needles, a plough-wheel, and three nuts, which she was to take great care of.
There was a little figure plump For every little knoll, Busy needles, and spools of thread, And trudging feet from school.
The short, rigid needles in fascicles of two are arranged in comparatively long cylindrical tassels at the ends of the tough up-curving branches.
Their slender, grayish needles are from eight to twelve inches long, and inclined to droop, contrasting with the rigid, dark-colored trunk and branches.
At another shop he bought some large needles, half-a-dozen skeins of stout waxed thread, a pair of large scissors, a couple of strong steel buckles, and a tailor's thimble.
"Hate to be a dignitary in all this heat," Amos said, unenviously. "What are they doing now?" he enquired, and both boys parted the prickly pine needles to look out and down.