It was making them almost as good as new that gave her the patience to undertake the tiny stitches with linen thread and curved needle.ĭonut could hear Aunt Agnes downstairs clanking the door to the woodstove, filling the teakettle. Sam had taught her how to prepare the skins and stitch them up all perfect, stuffed with cotton batting, dusted with arsenic powder to kill the lice and other vermin. It was the precise steps needed to put them back together.
It wasn’t so much the mice and birds themselves that fascinated Donut. That little deer mouse would forever gaze into the pitch-black of its own empty skull. Once before she had so concentrated on the socket and the wood glue drying that she had popped the eyeball in backward. She held a number sixteen glass eye with a clamp, lining up the iris so it looked forward and to the right. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.In her nightclothes in the early morning light, Donut perched on the chair at the small desk in her room.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.
0 kommentar(er)
