This was the message:--"The girl who made these mitts hopes they will be a comfort to some dear brave hands fighting for her and her sisters in England.
Some time ago Monica Jermyn brought round some terrific mitts she'd knitted to go in one of my parcels for the troops.
Dog-skin outer Mitts showing lampwick Lashings for slinging over the Shoulders.
And so Bill and Birdie rapidly collected five eggs, which we hoped to carry safely in our fur mitts to our igloo upon Mount Terror, where we could pickle them in the alcohol we had brought for the purpose.
Working with our woollen half-mitts and mittson our hands all the time, and our fur mitts over them when possible, we gradually got the buckles undone, and spread the green canvas floor-cloth on the snow.
I mended a pair of half mitts to-day, and we are having two meals instead of three.
I hauled up the eggs in their mitts (which we fastened together round our necks with lampwick lanyards) and then the skins, but failed to help Bill at all.
After about a quarter of an hour the effects of the marching would be felt in the warming of hands and feet and the consequent thawing of our mitts and finnesko.
After a minute, more or less, the fingers become too cold for such work, and they must be put back into the wool and fur mitts until they are again warm enough to continue.
We did all we could to stop up the places where the drift was coming in, plugging the holes with our socks, mitts and other clothing.
The blubber stove was working, and we had fuel for it: we had also found a way down to the penguins and had three complete, though frozen eggs: the two which had been in my mitts smashed when I fell about because I could not wear spectacles.
Of course a certain number of mitts and socks were blown away and lost, but the only important things were Bill's fur mitts, which were stuffed into a hole in the rocks of the hut.
There were even her white lace mitts that Aunt Polly in an unusual fit of benevolence had given her.
These mitts or rather gauntlets were made longer in the arms than usual so as to overlap the burberry sleeves and keep the wrists warm.
In Adelie Land, the only furs we used were finnesko, wolfskin mitts and sleeping-bags of reindeer skins.
Lambskin mitts with the wool facing inwards were very useful and wore well for occupations like hauling on ropes and lifting cases.
Felt mitts are perhaps the worst in this respect, and it is no exaggeration to say that you could easily brain a man with one after it had been worn in drift for a couple of days.
Wolfskin mitts are unexcelled for use in cold windy weather.
Like every other movable thing, mitts had to be made fast to prevent them blowing away.
The same appeared over points on the clothing, on the mitts and round the funnel of the helmet.
You will then explain about the fishery, and how the wrists of the men are chafed, and break out into painful sores, and how worsted mitts serve the purpose at once of prevention and cure.
Forgive us, dear boy, but the idea of our being asked in this sudden way to make innumerable mitts and comforters and worsted helmets seems so odd that we can't help laughing.
But tell me, Billy, do the fishermen like the worsted mitts and helmets and comforters that were sent to them from this house last year?
A pair of baby's mitts of fine lace also may be seen at the Essex Institute.
There were also eight pairs of kid mitts and four pairs of gloves; these with the masks show that this little girl's complexion was also to be well guarded.
This optimistic young man found good even in this, for he said that on the way home to Cape Evans his mitts thawed out far more easily than Bowers's did, and attributed the little triumph to the grease in the broken egg!
All socks, finnesko, and mitts had long been coated with ice, and when placed in breast-pockets or inside vests at night they did not even show signs of thawing.
How it came to pass, with some appearance of inconsistency, that Mrs. Mitts was cut by all the ladies and the Pensioner admired by all the ladies, matters not.
He was eagerly looked for, and Mrs. Mitts was closely watched.
In these circumstances much excitement was one day occasioned by Mrs. Mitts receiving a visit from a Greenwich Pensioner.
And one of the boys thought he could handle the mitts some.
Oh, he can handle themitts some, all right; none of your parlor Y.
Some of 'em don't put on the mitts at all, but most of 'em works up to that.
By the time I got to it we were in the middle of the creek and nothing in sight but a flock of tugboats and a bunch of yaps waving their mitts on the dock.
Susan had on her bonnet and mitts and held her sun-umbrella firmly gripped between her two hands and her two knees.
Susan only waited to lay aside her bonnet and mitts and then hastened to the fence herself.
It was made to go with these lace mitts and satin slippers.
When Sally showed her the long white silk mitts that went with the bonnet, the Princess cried: "Oh do ride home with me and let me give you a handkerchief Aunt Beatrice sent me, to carry in your hand!
There were also eight pairs of kid mitts and four pairs of gloves.
A faint shade of something like amusement lent expression to his placid features as he listened to Mr. Copernicus puffing his way up the stairs, followed by Mr. Mitts and Barney.
I thought I wasn’t mistaken,” said Mr. Mitts to himself.
At midnight sharp, Mr. Mitts saw his charge ascend the rear platform of the Chicago train just as it moved out of the gloomy Jersey City station of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
As they smoked their cigars in the Library after dinner, Mr. Copernicus told Mr. Mitts about Quinlan.
Black lace mitts covered her hands; and she carried, point upward, a venerable brown umbrella, loosely rolled up, and held in place with two rubber bands.
When you catch a fox, take him out withmitts on and set again if you haven't a clean trap to put in its place.
Newhouse trap, smoke it over burning green fir boughs, and smear it with equal parts of oil of amber and beeswax; also, smear the chain and use leather mitts to set trap with, for it is no use setting unless you do.
As a rule, during the first half of January the weather was comparatively warm, so much so that we could dispense with our mitts and work outside for quite long periods with bare hands.
Have given Thompson instructions to turn crew to making pair mitts and helmet out of Jaeger fleece for all hands forward.
With 2 strands of sports yarn, ch 52 sts, sew heart on each end, tie a bow and sew on mitts as shown on illustration.
He was outwardly unconcerned, but inwardly he was cursing the luck that he had been wearing mitts upon his hands when he entered the bluff.
That battle started Billy to thinking, and the result of that mental activity was a determination to learn to handle his mitts scientifically--people of the West Side do not have hands; they are equipped by Nature with mitts and dukes.
And clumsy mitts are laid aside And choppers' hands are bare, And chips are thick where children play, The Spring is coming round this way.
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