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So did the doctor's wife, and so did Mrs. Gate, at the large carding-mill, who, having high connexions frequently visiting her, might be expected to have a large consumption of ratafias and macaroons.
"I think that he would like to see the carding-mill very much indeed." "Yes," said Jonas. "Only," replied Oliver, "perhaps it would be dangerous to take him." "Why?" said Jonas. "Why, because," said Oliver, "I suppose he would touch the machinery, and perhaps get his hands torn off." "Yes," said Jonas, "boys sometimes do get very badly hurt in mills, careless and disobedient boys especially."
Your faith would not hold me up." There were other boys in the neighborhood who thought it rare sport to annoy the Mormons. The same Joseph Knight who has already figured in this narrative owned a small farm on which he had built a combined grist- and carding-mill. The power was obtained by means of a small stream, the outlet of Perch Pond to the Susquehanna River, opposite Harpersville.
Then they saw them up, and make boards." "What mill?" said Oliver. "At that saw-mill near the carding-mill. The mill down in the village, you know, is a grist-mill." By this time, the boys had got to the top of the hill, and they got into the sleigh, and rode along.
Navigation finally ceased on its waters in 1853, since which date its channel has been filling up and its banks have been falling away. In 1801, Moses Hale, whose father had long before started a fulling-mill in Dracut, established a carding-mill on River Meadow Brook, the first enterprise of the kind in Middlesex County.
These rolls Isabella used to spin into yarn, at her spinning-wheel. Isabella had spun nearly all her rolls, and she wanted Jonas to carry some wool to the carding-mill, and get some more. The carding-mill was not in the village upon the outlet stream; but it was upon another stream, which emptied into the pond, instead of flowing from it.
And she did not see any sign that this boy would ever become one: this lad of hers who was always running off from his books to peer into the furnaces of the gas works, or to tease the village carpenter into letting him plane a board, or to sit, with chin in hands and elbows on knees, watching the saddler cutting and padding and stitching his leather, or to creep into the carding-mill like the Budge and Toddy whose lives he had read "to see weels go wound."
Jonas was placed in such circumstances at one time, when he was sent to the carding-mill to get some rolls for Isabella. The rolls which Isabella wanted were rolls of wool, as they are prepared at the mill ready for spinning. The wool is carded very fine, and then, by curious machinery, it is rolled out into rolls about three feet long, and as large round as a whip-handle at the middle.
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