" Of further plants related to his Satanic majesty is the clematis, termed "devil's thread," the toad-flax is his ribbon, the indigo his dye, while the scandix forms his darning-needles.

What a fragile, gracile thing is the mind that can leap thus from nine bargain basement hours of hairpins and darning-balls to the downy business of lining a crib in Never-Never Land and warming No Man's slippers before the fire of imagination.

The Stellaria holostea is "lady's white petticoat," and the Scandix pecten is "old wife's darning-needles."

Yet she has only a beak for a shuttle or darning-needlewhichever you please to call it.

she asked, slowly, setting her greedy eyes upon my face, and dropping her darning-work and shell upon her knee.