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Updated: June 28, 2025
A last summer's mullen stock, beating incessantly in the wind, seemed the only thing alive on all that vast outbulging of the earth. The stunted brush stiffly carded the breeze that blew so persistently. From rock to rock the gray old miner's gaze went wandering.
So Throp said, if that were so, he mun set hissen down an' help wi' t' wark. So Throp carded an' Throp's wife spun, an' that set things forrad a bit. But t' hands o' t' clock went round as they'd niver done afore; eleven o'clock com and hauf-past eleven, and then a quairter to twelve. Throp's wife looked at t' clock, an' then at bag, an' then at Throp.
They generally worked in pairs, a spinning wheel and cards being assigned to each pair, and while one carded the wool into rolls, the other spun it into yarn suitable for weaving into cloth, or a coarse, heavy thread used in making bridles and lines for the mules that were used in the fields. This work was done in the cabins, and the women working together alternated in the carding and spinning.
"Anything to put away that!" answered Mercy, trying to smile. He began at once, and told her a wonderful tale told first after this fashion by Bob of the Angels, at a winter-night gathering of the women, as they carded and spun their wool, and reeled their yarn together.
The warp can be made of strong cotton yarn which is manufactured for this very purpose and can be bought for about seventeen cents a pound. This is probably cheaper than it could be carded and spun at home even on a cotton-growing farm. The wool filling should be coarse and slack-twisted, and on wool-growing farms or in wool-growing districts is easily produced.
A farsighted and highly successful program for meeting urgent water needs is being carded out by converting salt water to fresh water. A 75 percent reduction in the cost of this process has already been realized. Continuous resource development is essential for our expanding economy.
Scattered over this pastoral-looking country were huge mounds of white earth, looking like heaps of carded wool, and at the end of each of these invariably stood a tall, ugly skeleton of wood. These marked the positions of the mines the towers contained the winding gear, while the white earth was the clay called mulloch, brought from several hundred feet below the surface.
They have just as much imposed upon me their own conception, as if I were the marble out of which they had carded a statue." "You must allow us to be the judges of that," I replied. "Well, but," he said, "anyhow you can't deny that such illusions are common. What lover ever saw his mistress as she really is?" "No," I said, "I don't deny that.
No, nothing but one piece of abuse after another, though she knows the proverb they have here that 'an ass loaded with gold goes lightly up a mountain, and that 'gifts break rocks, and 'praying to God and plying the hammer, and that 'one "take" is better than two "I'll give thee's." Then there's my master, who ought to stroke me down and pet me to make me turn wool and carded cotton; he says if he gets hold of me he'll tie me naked to a tree and double the tale of lashes on me.
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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