Question

Laboriously, with a double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides. But what to fill it with? That was the question. The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into Mother’s bedroom to look for scraps. On the bed-table, she discovered a great many sheets of fine paper, gathered them up, tore them into tiny pieces, and stuffed her case, then sewed up the fourth side.

(a) Kezia was searching for in her mother’s bedroom.

(b) The question hovering Kezia’s mind was …………….. in the fourth side of the pin-cushion.

(c) The word in the above lines means the same as ‘in a way that takes a lot of time and effort.​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) kezia was searching fot scraps

b) what to fill in the third side

c) laboriously