When you receive this, write me a long yarn about something to amuse me.
The mother spun yarn when she was able, for she was often sick, and Rosy did all she could to help.
She milked the red cow and fed the hens; dug the garden, and went to town to sell the yarn and the eggs.
Two Swedes, hunting tree-squirrels from the other end of Roubeau Island, had stopped to ask for matches and to yarn a while in the warm sunshine of the clearing.
Bishop went down one Sunday morning to yarn away an hour or so with Whipple, but found the wife alone in the cabin.
Parson John had won the day, and the group dispersed, chuckling with delight, and anxious to pass on the yarn to others.
D'ye think I'd believe any yarn about a man that's been mor'n a father to me an' my family?
Blankets woven in a great variety of designs from coarse, loose-spun yarn dyed with commercial dyes of many shades; these are the Navaho blankets of commerce.
Those made from the close-spun native yarn dyed in the old colors and woven in the simple old patterns; when aged they closely resemble the old bayeta blankets.
The greater portion of the wool from their hundreds of thousands of sheep is used in weaving, and in addition a considerable quantity of commercial yarn is employed for the same purpose.
Fortunately the decrease in the demand for blankets woven of commercial yarn is discouraging their manufacture.
It's as much of a yarn as your story of the lost mine.
That yarn of yours was not only interesting, Jeems, but it has some practical value," remarked Jo.
I was holding a skein of yarn for Aunt Lois; and she went on winding in silence, putting the ball through loops and tangled places.
Aunt Nabby sat trotting her knitting-needles on a blue-mixed yarn stocking.
Wal, Tom, he reeled off a yarn one night that was 'bout the toughest I ever hed the pullin' on.
There happened to be also a fair of linen yarn, and the street was crowded with cars laden with hanks of yarn of different sizes and colours.
Footnote 19: These were the gentry by whom the author was some time subsequently so closely beleaguered at the yarn fair at Castlebar, as hereafter mentioned.
After that Hargreaves was ready for it and could lengthen, twist, and spin into yarn eleven threads of it.
So many other people believed the yarn that he probably thought he was telling the truth.
Naturally it is a pretty expensive operation and it makes the yarn thus turned out high in price.
Well, after a little while, things settled down and then Samuel Crompton dragged out the parts of his hidden muslin wheel, put them together, and he and the lady he had married went to work making the finest and strongest yarn they could.
I suppose such yarn goes only into the finest quality goods," observed Captain Dillingham.
All that has to be a separate process and therefore the yarn is taken to other machines where it is drawn finer and where several of the fine threads can be twisted into one.
This sort of yarn is used to make imitation silk stockings and many other articles.
Sometimes, though, it happens that an order comes for a crackajack fine yarn of the best possible quality and then another combing or carding process follows which takes out everything shorter than fibers of a specified length.
There are in addition other ways of preparing cottons for embroidery, crocheting, or knitting, not to mention methods used to finish cotton yarn so that it will look like woolen, linen, or silk fiber.
The reeling of the yarn after it is spun is done chiefly by women.
I've heern tell of such things bein' fallen in with, sartaintly; but I never could meet with a man as had actually seed the beast with his own eyes; and I put it all down as a yarnfor the marines.
That indeed I am, old fellow; so come along below, and let us get the yarn and our breakfasts at once; I am longing for both.
So much for going to sleep in your watch on deck, Master Bob," said I, as the mate brought his yarn to a conclusion.
I am now going to spin you a yarn about one bluejacket's spree that, if it does not amuse you, at all events afforded myself and some of my comrades, just down from the frontier, a hearty laugh.
The above yarn is a true though short narrative of one of the numerous attempts made by chivalrous Maoris to protect helpless white men from the blind, ferocious fanaticism of Te Ua's prophets.
The yarn spread all over the country, and he was unmercifully chaffed to the day of his death about the way he had entertained Mad Conway and the counterfeit Colonel.
To these and heaps of other queries I can only say that truth is stranger than fiction, that I have told the yarn as it happened, and can't answer conundrums.
A yarn about one of these occasions may amuse you, although there is but little information as regards scouting in it.
The Maori yarn differs from the Greek, as it was the young lady who did the swimming part of the business, and the hussy was not drowned.
The tide runs up and down these fiords at a tremendous rate, and this must be remembered when you read the yarn I am now going to spin you.
I think before I terminate this yarn I may tell you about a rather quaint incident that happened during the siege of Ohotaki, and as it portrays an idiosyncrasy or trait in Maori character you will pardon my doing so.
But now I will spin you a yarn about one of my men who was lost on the same trek to Mashonaland.
The above yarn is greatly epitomised, as my old host not only described most of the blows struck during the fight, but also gave me the roll-call of the Maoris, and most of their pedigrees.
The above short and very incomplete yarn may give you some idea of the reason why we, members of the Lost Legion, so cheerfully underwent the great hardships we did to revenge the Poverty Bay massacre of November 1868.
He will be asleep and we can have our yarn out without fear of interruption," answered Mark.
He's pitched a yarn and then, after a promise to turn up, he changes his mind and makes a new plan altogether by which old Ben Redmayne is put entirely in his power.
Well, in the Redmayne case, certain ingenious operations have combined to tell you a story; and you have found yourself so interested in the yarnthat you have quite overlooked the mechanism.
How the world would chuckle if the yarnever reached the newspapers!
Trust the skipper of the Devon--if he'd been genuine--to make a good yarn out of it.
It is suspended from short sticks, which are held in horizontal layers around the shaft in the basket, and the action is such during the operation as to cause the yarn to stand out in radial lines.
Yarn and similar material can be drained by a method analogous to that of hanging it upon sticks in a room and allowing the water to drip off.
If there's anything in their yarn it might be managed," he said to himself that night, when he was alone in his bedroom.
Was there anything in the old Frenchman's yarnafter all.
