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Manchmal waren es Knöpfe, manchmal Stopfwolle, dann wieder Schnürsenkel;
Sometimes it was buttons, sometimes it was darning wool, sometimes it was shoelaces;
Harry hatte eine Schere gefunden und schnitt Stopfwolle in kleine Stückchen.
and Harry, having discovered a pair of scissors, was pleasurably engaged in snipping short lengths off a skein of darning-wool.
Meine Stopfwolle war längst verbraucht, und ich mußte mir mit bunten Wollfäden helfen, die ich aus einer Decke zog.
My darning-wool had been used up long before, and I had to make do with brightly coloured woollen threads that I pulled out of a blanket.
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