Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 86
with a twine twisted from the same fiber. How many vexations a little Mexican girlmay be spared in making her dolls wardrobeby the use of this slender, eyeless needle, nothard to pull through, and a thread that nevercomes out, because it has grown there, and willnever twist nor get into a snarl!… … Dear Jack : A friend of mine who was traveling in Mexico not long since, > __ says that across the Rio Grande wherethe Maguey-plant, shown in the accom-panying picture, grows wild, it is called the needle-and-thread plant. The Indian boys search for it and, on finding one with dark-brown thorns,…
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