This operation is termed "opening" and the process is conducted in what is known as a "bale opener," one type of which is illustrated in Fig.

The sun drew nigh The bale-fires of the western sky, And faggot clouds with blood-red glare, Caught flame, and in the radiant air Lone Wyvis like a jewel shone The Fians, as they stared at Conn, Were stooping on the high Look-Out.

"Robbers after the bales o' cloth.

A few days after he took Spelt, he made prize of a Portuguese, laden with bale goods and stores.

He used it in single blows, just as the men were lifting to tighten the bale cords.

I made four bales cotton, one hundred pounds seed cotton.

"This kind of cotton," he wrote in a public letter, "would run a three million bale crop up to more than four millions; and this would reduce the price probably to four or five cents.

" "Still it would take a mighty good man to open them locks with only bale-wire and a harness-needle," said the sheriff, hurriedly.

The bale handles are apt to become heated, and in looking for something to lift them, the foods are over-fried.

Swollen with rage burst in the bale-bringer; Flamed in his eyes a fierce light, likest fire.

From THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE O mortal man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate: That like an emmet thou must ever moil Is a sad sentence of an ancient date; And, certes, there is for it reason great, For though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail And curse thy star, and early drudge and late, Withouten that would come an heavier bale Loose life, unruly passions, and diseases pale.

What, tho' with magic influence, sleep, O'er every closing eyelid creep: Tho' drunk with its oblivious wine Our comrades on their bales recline, My Selim's trance I sure can break Selim, 'tis I, 'tis I who speak.

Reach Reeling Retting Roller-feed Rolls Root-comber opener Round-thread finish Rove Roving frame Roxburgh, Dr. Sack-cutting frame, semi-mechanical Sack making printing machine Sand bags Seed per acre, amount of sowing of Sewing machines Shell-feed Short-tell Snipping machine Softening machines Spinning Spool or roll winding Spools (see Rolls) Standard bale Starching (see Dressing) Steeping (see Retting)