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Machinery is a triumph of handicraft as truly as sculpture and architecture. The fingers which can plan and build a steamship or a suspension bridge, which can make the Quinebaug and the Blackstone turn spindles by the hundred thousand, which can turn a rag heap into spotless paper, and make myriads of useful and artful articles from rough metal, are fingers which this age alone has evolved.
Because of his quick hand, he was never in need of employment. And because of his quick temper, he left the place of his birth one day and travelled west until he came to a ford which crossed the Quinebaug River. There, before the week was over, he had bought from Oeneko, the Indian chief, five hundred acres on each side of the river land in those days being the cheapest known commodity.
Now, these last-named Indians were a waterloving people, and to this day their "fishing fire" a column of pale flame rises out of Quinebaug Lake once in seven years, as those say who have watched beside its waters through the night.
Now, these last-named Indians were a waterloving people, and to this day their "fishing fire" a column of pale flame rises out of Quinebaug Lake once in seven years, as those say who have watched beside its waters through the night.
So by that time, as you can see and this is an important part of my preface the Spencer stock was a thrifty mixture of Yankee, Irish, Scotch, Dutch and French blood although you would never have guessed it if you had simply seen the name of one Josiah Spencer following another as the owner of the Quinebaug Wagon Works.
Of course he knew acquaintances of Rendel's, some one always does: this time they were officers on the tubby U. S. S. "Quinebaug," that, during the summer of 1888, was trying to uphold the maritime honor of the United States in European waters.
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