Crossword-Solution: BASTINGS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Bone-rackings and bastings be plenty enow in this life, without going out of one’s way to invite them.

But Dicky was a good little fellow and helped his mamma ever so much, pulling out bastings from her needlework, bringing in the kindling and shavings from the shed, and going to the store for her butter and potatoes and eggs.

There were not really so many of them, merely a slovenly woman who was pedaling the sewing machine with a baby tumbling at her feet, an eight-year-old who sat on the window ledge pulling bastings while a half-grown girl cooked something on a stove that had been propped in front of the fireplace.

Bone-rackings and bastings be plenty enow in this life, without going out of one's way to invite them.

Her mother, a little creature with sweet temper that made amends for an entire lack of energy, was rocking over some bastings, sawing the air with her forefinger as she discoursed on the weighty splendor of the gold watch and chain, ending in gush of parental complacency, "And Norah says it'll be as much mine 's hers!" Norah could hear her chirping on, happily, while she laid away her hat in the bandbox and girt herself with a protecting apron.