Little Boy Of The Mountain D

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He pushed open the heavy wooden door, to see his mother getting up from her loom. She was weaving new curtains, but came to greet her arriving son. She had noticed the newly-discovered consternation written on his face and gave him a querying look.

The boy told her that he had lost his fishing-walking-slinging stick and was going to go find it.

He asked how the curtains were progressing. He was fascinated by the mechanism of the loom. He had been defeated by it, when his mother had prompted him to try it - he did not have the patience for such work, even though he marveled at the results that could be achieved by those that knew what they were doing.

He suspected however that his friends might laugh at him if they knew he had been trying his hands at woman's work.

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