Page 7 - THE LITTLE GIRL- MODULE

One day, when she was kept indoors with a cold, her grandmother told
her that father‟s birthday was next week and suggested she should
make him a pin-cushion for a gift out of a beautiful piece of yellow silk.

Now Kezia was not well, she had a cold, so she was supposed to stay at
home. So, her grandmother suggested that as she was at home and her
father’s birthday was approaching, she could make a birthday gift for
him. She asked Kezia to make a pin cushion for him and she also gave
her a yellow coloured fabric of silk to make the cushion.

Laboriously, with double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides.

Laboriously: with lot of effort or difficulty.

Kezia put in lot of effort to make the birthday gift. She used double
cotton (refers to a thread) and she stitched three sides of the cushion.

But what to fill it with? That was the question.

Now Kezia had prepared the bag; the bag shape of the cushion.She had
to stitch the fourth side and before that, she had to fill the cushion with
something and she did not know what to fill the cushion with.

The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into
Mother‟s bedroom to look for scraps.

Wandered into: went into, by chance
Scraps: small pieces of cloth or paper etc that are not needed.

Kezia was confused that what should she use to fill the cushion with. As
her grandmother was out in the garden and she was just looking for
something, she reached her mother’s bedroom. She was looking for bits
of paper or cloth to stuff in to the cushion.

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