The racer is incidentally useful, but essentially something to bet upon, as much as the thimble-rigger's "little joker."

All because a cranny of the skull, about the size of a thimble, is not large enough for their dominating gland.

Mrs. Rosenberg detected the cheat at once; and, as she was needing the money for the socks, she scolded Mandoline soundly, and pelted her pretty little hands, rat, tat, tat, with a steel thimble.

If she did so, perhaps the woman would pelt her with the steel thimble.

"It doesn't seem, now," murmured the mother, with a tear in her eye, "that I could ever whack them pretty fingers with a thimble.

Now, if my mamma was always thumping me with a thimble, and scolding me so as to shake the house, I shouldn't care; but when she is just like an angel, and forgives me, I do care.

"I don't believe it happens just right for Mrs. Rosenberg to keep that dog, or to thump so with a thimble; but, then, I don't know.

" "No, Alice; not so much as a brass thimble.

When I went there again, her needle was sticking in her work, and her thimble was on the frame, but she was gone.

"Ha ha ha," said Eleseus himself at that; but he went in to his mother, and got her to give him an old thimble, filed off the end, and made quite a fine ferrule.

and he sealed the letter with a dab of black wax flattened by the impression of the woman's thimble, who kept the shop.

Has not forgotten thimble" Here Sandy was interrupted by the Cook and the Gardener, who declared that if he didn't stop they'd die a-laughin', that they would!

Sandy shook his head again, as he glanced at Ann in her nighty, her ruffled curls tumbling over her flushed faceAnn without patchwork, thimble, or pleased expression!

As to him of the "Quarterly," a thimble would have been "a mansion, a court," for his whole soul.

She had hooks and eyes, and button-fasteners, when these gave out; she used from her own cotton-spools and skeins of silk; she had tailors' twist for buttonholes, and large black cord for the pipings; and these were but working implements, like scissors and thimble,taken for granted, without count.

She asked why I had not come as requested, and then said, "Go, bring the silver thimble Frances left here, and the coral necklace I gave you.

" In my nervous haste I could not find the thimble, but carried out the necklace.

Almost before her mother had done speaking, the little girl fixed her eyes upon a handsome work-box, standing upon the table with the lid open, and showing a lining of pale blue silk, edged with silver; while within were scissors and thimble, an abundance of needles and cotton, everything, in short, that Emma had long been wishing for in vain.

the little pin-cushions and emery-sacks, the fantastic thimble-cases, and the fish-shaped needle-books!

a, The screw, with a fine-cut thread; b, nut which travels along it; c, a hollow thimble into which the screw passes at one end, the other being cut out V-shaped to catch into a slot (d) on the shoe; e, e, the grip[A] for the bars, the length and direction of which depend upon the shape of the foot; f, f, the counter-sunk rivets forming the hinge (f'); g, the counter-sunk rivet of the expanding piece.]

"Well then, I suppose this is yours, Hermione; but, I must say, I never knew a gold thimble earned so easily."

Yes, dear little readers, it was a pretty gold thimble, and round the bottom of it there was a rim of white enamel, and on the enamel were gold letters.

Say, for instance, that none under fifteen years shall be allowed a license; that livery servants, apprentices, clerks in counting-houses, coach and wagon offices, hair-dressers, and tailors who use the thimble in person, should be considered as unqualified persons.

Her Massa couldn't git no body ter buy her, hee, hee, hee, so he dresses her up nice en buys her a thimble en gives her a piece of cloth ter sew on.

And soon the 'Magical Thimble,' the 'Magical Eye-glass,' &c., were read in succession, until I could not but exclaim, 'How pleasing is variety!'