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They have already succeeded in constructing, near the cascade, a corn-mill and a saw-mill, and have built a very good oven. We miss Ernest very much. Though his taste for study withdrew him a good deal from us, and he was not so useful as his brothers, we found his calm and considerate advice often of value, and his mildness always spread a charm over our circle, in joy or in trouble.
The Rochdale District Co-operative Corn-mill Society has also been eminently successful. It supplies flour to consumers residing within a radius of about fifteen miles round Rochdale . It also supplies flour to sixty-two co-operative societies, numbering over twelve thousand members.
Harlequin throws a pair of Limerick gloves into a corn-mill; and the spectator is astonished to see the gloves immediately issuing from the hopper, well ground into seven armies of one hundred thousand men each, and with parks of artillery to correspond. In these two anecdotes, we recognize at once the able and industrious artist arranging his materials with a pious regard to theatrical effect.
Then follows a description of the orchards and gardens; the servants' offices, brewhouse, bakehouse, dairy, pigeon-houses, and corn-mill; the river and its abundance of fish; the warren, the coppices, the walks; ending thus
He lived in Henderson, and kept a corn-mill. He and my father were friends, and he gave my father some of his early drawings of Kentucky birds. Georgiana has them now, and that is where she gets her love of birds from my father, who got his from the great, the very great Audubon." "Would Miss Cobb let me see these drawings?" I asked, eagerly.
Being from that time, as it were, the controller of the destinies and remunerations of all those in Fow Hou, he would, manifestly, be outside the working of the scheme; standing apart and regulating, like the person who turns the handle of the corn-mill, but does not suffer himself to be drawn between the stones, he could still maintain both his respect and his remuneration unaltered.
My letter of introduction slowly read and digested, the head of the family placed himself at my disposal. We set off on a round of inspection, the burning mid-day sun here tempered by a delicious breeze. We first visited the olive-presses and corn-mill this farmer was village miller as well as olive grower all worked by water-power and erected by himself at a heavy outlay.
The man put on his hat and went with me a few yards from the door, and then proceeded towards the factory. I passed over the bridge, under which was a streamlet, which a little below the bridge received the brook which once turned Owen Glendower's corn-mill. I soon reached Llan Silin, a village or townlet, having some high hills at a short distance to the westward, which form part of the Berwyn.
In this town Richard had settled after his return from America, in which country he had enriched himself, first, by spirit and industry, lastly, by bold speculation and good luck. He invested his fortune in business, became a partner in a large brewery, soon bought out his associates, and then took a principal share in a flourishing corn-mill.
In this town Richard had settled after his return from America, in which country he had enriched himself, first, by spirit and industry, lastly, by bold speculation and good luck. He invested his fortune in business, became a partner in a large brewery, soon bought out his associates, and then took a principal share in a flourishing corn-mill.
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