Author:
Harriet Davison

Date of Publication:
2003

Publication:
Town and Country Farmer, Winter 2003, Vol 20, No 2, p 64

Excerpt:
When in Venice, do as the Venetians do! That is, every minute you are out on the street, look as good as you possibly can! So we did. For my part, a divinely soft, hand spun, and loosely hand knitted alpaca scarf was donned, both to make me feel smug, and to make me feel snug. And I did!

On about the third day , to my horror, I noticed a hole!

And then progressively more; until on day five, there were about 6 holes! How could this be? Had the silverfish had lunch there? Was the spinning poorly done? Was I being too rough with my treasured scarf?

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