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Insects and Other Critters
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Hang on to your ears when you sight one of these darning-needles flying around outdoors. If you don’t, they will like enough sew up your ears so that you can’t hear, If they don’t do that, they are liable to make it uncomfortable for you by going right through your head,—in at one ear and out at the other. Besides, they might sting you.
Many New England children are so afraid the darning-needles will do some of these dreadful things that at sight of them they clap their hands over their ears, and run in great terror.
Some say the darning-needles will sew up your mouth or your nose, or they think the creatures will dart straight through your body.
If you kill a toad, and one of your cows catches sight of the dead toad and smells of it, she will give bloody milk.
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