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Updated: June 3, 2025
The next day we met on the streets of Findlay a gentleman having a sample band-cutter an attachment for a two-tined fork, to be used when threshing. The man who pitched the bundles from the stack to the machine cut the bands on each bundle at the same time he pitched them. This had just been patented, and he was anxious to have us take the agency for the United States.
We were a vigorous and on the whole a healthy tribe but accidents sometimes happened and "Go for the doctor!" was the first command when the band-cutter slashed the hand of the thresher or one of the children fell from the hay-rick. One night as I lay buried in deep sleep close to the garret eaves I heard my mother call me and something in her voice pierced me, roused me.
Randal, the band-cutter, drew from his wrist the looped string of his big knife, the stackers slid down from the straw-pile, and a race began among the teamsters to see whose span would be first unhitched and at the watering trough. What joyous rivalry it seemed to us! Mother and Mrs.
As we were sitting out in front of the Hotel, talking, one morning, I noticed a stranger coming towards us, carrying a pitch-fork and band-cutter in one hand, and in the other a large paper. Mr. Elliott remarked: "There comes Mr. Dodge's son, now. Guess he is going out peddling your patent." I "supposed so." This was not the case, however, for as he stepped up to Mr.
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