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sheep to suffer a little cold so that we may be 

 warm I " 



"We warm? How?" 



"You astonish me. 

 You do not know 

 that, you who read so 

 many hooks? AYell, 

 with this wool they 

 will make you stock- 

 ings and knitted 

 things for this win- 

 ter; they Will even Spinning-wheel 



make cloth, fine cloth for clothes." 



"Peuh!" exclaimed Emile. "This wool is too 

 dirty and ugly to make stockings, knitted things, 

 and cloth. " 



"Dirty at present," Jacques agreed, "but it will 

 le washed in the river, and when it has become very 

 white Mother Ambroisine will work it on her spin- 

 ning wheel and make yarn of it. This yarn knitted 

 with IK < dies will become stockings that one is very 

 .dad to have on one's feet when obliged to run in the 

 snow." 



"I have never seen red, green, blue sheep; and 

 yet there are red, green, blue, and other colored 

 wools," said Emile. 



"They dye the white wool that the sheep gives us; 

 tin >* put it into boiling water with drugs and color- 

 ing matter, and it comes out of that water with a 

 color that stays." 



"And doth!" 



Mid cloth is made with threads of wool like 



