"Yes, and you'll be good all daywon't you, darling, and not hide mamma's spools?"

28, and the full equipment demands the following four distinct kinds of apparatusa bank capable of holding approximately 300 spools, a frame for forming the weaver's lease and the beamer's lease, machine for drawing the threads from the spools in the bank and for measuring the length and marking the warp at predetermined intervals, and finally the actual machine which links the group of threads in the form of a chain.

Burt finished it off for him with just a few touches; and, delighted with his acquisition of the rudiments of a new trade, he carried the spool home with him, to try once more the possibility of educating his water-wheel into a watchman.

In 1864 a suit of jean cost $600, a spool of cotton $30, a pound of bacon $15.

Ruth dropped a spool of thread which rattled, as it fell, and rolled a space and lay neglected.

If you find these are all right, examine the spool on the crank shaft from which the governor is run and you will probably find it loose.

Then he must fix the spool on the axis of this great slow wheel, when, turning only as often as the wheel turned, the spool would wind the thread so much the more slowly.

"Enough of this spoolery," said he, flinging the spool through the open window of the senior day room.

Perfectly normalwhen the spool of the killed and wounded rolled out by yards like that of a ticker on a busy day on the Stock Exchange!

He pulled a small spool out of a waistcoat pocket and drew out a tape measure.

So great is their delicacy of touch that they can make a thousand yards of silver thread out of a silver dollar; and if you will give one of them a sovereign, in a few moments he will reel off a spool of gold wire as fine as No. 80 cotton, and he does it with the simplest, most primitive of tools.

The same machinery feeds down a fresh section of the ribbon-like film into position and coils the exposed portion in a dark box, just as the film of a kodak is rolled off one spool and, after exposure, is wound up on another.

This bouquet machine, which the inventor styles a bouquetiere, consists of a stationary rod (shown to the right of the figure), upon which slides a spool wound with twine, and the lower part of which is provided with three springs for keeping the twine taut.

So Emily rose, and taking a large spool of crochet-cotton which Miss Percival gave her, held it above her head, turning it slowly, till a tatting shuttle, which was fastened at the end of the thread, fell to the ground.

Perspiration dripped from white faces as the operatives stood listlessly at their looms, or the children straggled back and forth in the narrow lanes between the frames, tending the endlessly turning spools.

He noticed that she was sewing with ravelings and he said, 'Lady, next time I come I'll bring you a spool of thread if you don't mind.'

I threw down my spools, and ran to my mother.

" "Like a panther with his teeth pulled," said a woman who stood by the counter, buying a spool of thread.