Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Craigie, William A. (William Alexander), Sir, 1867-1957 · London : H. Milford ; New York : Oxford University Press · leaf 274
4 THE DARNING-NEEDLE I have been in a ladys box, said the Daming-Needle,* and this lady was a cook. She had five fingers on eachhand, and I never saw anything so conceited as those fivefingers. And yet they were only there that they mighttake me out of the box and put me back into it. Were they of… … different lengths : the outermost, the thumbling, was shortand fat; he walked out in front of the ranks, and onlyhad one joint in his back, and could only make a singlebow ; but he said that if he were hacked off from a man,that man was useless for service in war. Lick-pot, thesecond finger, thrust…
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