NEEDLES.
PART 4.
| clean´-ing | oil | man´-gle | Fri´-day |
| piece | em´-er-y | a-fraid´ | points |
| can´-vas | pow´-der | brok´-en | hun´-gry |
| soap | bun´-dle | sec´-ond | laugh´-ing |
1. The cleaning of the needles came next.
2. A great many were laid side by side on a piece of canvas, and covered with paste.
'What is the paste made of?' Harry wanted to know.
'Soft soap, my lad,' said the workman, 'and oil, and emery-powder.'
3. He rolled them all up in the canvas, tied string round the bundle, and put it between the rollers of a thing that looked like a mangle.
4. Dora and Harry opened their eyes wide. 'Think of needles being mangled! This will be something to tell mother!'
5. When the bundle was unrolled, they were afraid that the needles would be broken. But they were all right, and they were taken out and washed in warm soap-suds.
6. 'Now they must be clean!' said Dora.