Where Does the Part of a Stocking Go That Was Where the Hole Comes?
Perhaps this is a foolish question, but many boys and girls have been puzzled for an answer to it. When you put your stockings on they have no holes in the feet, and at night, when you take them off, there are often quite large holes in them. The answer is the same as in the case of the lead in the lead-pencil. The lead in the pencil wears away. You can see it wear away because that is what makes the marks.
When a hole is coming into your stocking, the stocking on your foot is being rubbed between your foot and something else (probably some part of your shoe) and this constant rubbing will wear through the yarns with which the stocking is knitted. Of course, the yarns in the stocking are stretched somewhat when it is on your foot and the rubbing finally cuts through the threads and releases the tension of the threads of yarn, so that not always is as much stocking lost as the size of the hole. But, if you were to look carefully at your foot and inside your shoe, when you first take the stocking off and see the hole, you would find little particles of yarn all about.