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This process diminishes both breadth and length nearly one half. After "fulling" cloth is woolly and rough; to improve the appearance it is first teazled that is, raked with cylinders covered with the round prickly heads of the teazle plant.
The wadding, picked up bit by bit from the ground, is teazled by the bird's claws and inserted, all fleecy, into the meshes of the canvas. The beak pushes it, the breast presses it, both inside and out. The result is a soft felt a couple of inches thick. Near the top of the pouch, on one side, is contrived a narrow orifice, tapering into a short neck. This is the kitchen-door.
Nobody else would do it. Ah, I see." He pointed to the noose, and showed me how the rope was frayed and teazled out, as if by the application of claws. "That's it, plain enough. He's had all night to do it in, and there he has been scrat, scrat, scrat, scrat at his neck with those fore-paws of his, till he got it loose and pushed it over his head." "Nonsense!"
Where shall we find in the Penduline's mattress aught to vie with the Epeira's eiderdown, that teazled russet gossamer? The Spider is superior to the bird in every way, in so far as concerns her work. But, on her side, the Penduline is a more devoted mother.
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