question: There were several other equally ghastly figurines of the same general type elsewhere in the trailer ( I did n't go digging for them ) . The most mysterious were , surely , the figurines of small African - American childen riding on the backs of alligators ( one of them is just visible in the upper left corner of the image below ) . Surely , something so odd must mean something -- perhaps they relate to some regional folk - tale or old saying -- but what ?
Q: Why is the narrator a bit unsettled ?

answer: These dolls are very creepy .

question: I had no idea what I was doing , but it worked and it broke the path for me . Documentation can kill this . If I can go and look up all the little pieces , and loosely put them together , I no longer am looking at code .
Q: When the narrator starts working on the code , how can he be described ?

answer: He is clueless .

question: I admired it some more , wrote down identifying information and then reluctantly , but firmly returned it to the place in the owner 's pattern - resolute in my determination to locate one . I went home and typed in Vintage Knitting as bidden ... . only to my horror and disappointment to discover there were 1,900 entries in that section , most of which - as I scrolled down the page - I either owned , or remembered seeing in shops , when shops sold haberdashery in the not so distant past . In fact , on further investigation I discovered I owned older knickers than some of the entries .
Q: Why is the person disappointed ?

answer:
They ca n't find the knitting pattern they want