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"The successful spinner," he often remarked, "is the man who can turn out the best yarn from a given sample of the raw. Hand identical stuff to ten manufacturers and you'll soon see where the best yarn comes from." He knew of better yarns than came from the Ironsyde mill, and regretted the fact.
So sheep must be kept and sheared, and their wool carded, rolled and spun. As linen-spinning was the fancy-work of winter, so wool-spinning was that of summer. Back and forth before the loud-humming big wheel briskly stepped the cheerful spinner through the long bright afternoons of summer, busily spinning the yarn that was to be woven into cloths and flannels of different textures.
So he cautiously turned the conversation to the spinner Arachne, and when Stephanion entered into it, admitted that he, too, was curious to learn in what way the sculptors would represent her. "Yes," replied the maid, "my mistress has more than once racked her brains over that, and Archias too.
It is easy to see why the suave and amiable Mackintosh appeared to Mill to be a 'dandy' philosopher, an unctuous spinner of platitudes to impose upon the frequenters of Holland House, and hopelessly confused in the attempt to make compromises between contradictory theories.
But Death was not so near as the doctors thought, and still he lingered. He seemed in a desperate condition, but he got neither better nor worse. He could neither live nor die; he suffered horribly, and called loudly on Death to put an end to his pains. In this extremity he remembered what he had told the little spinner long ago.
Her niece had seen her and approached, as the machinery began to still for the dinner-hour. "Morning, Sarah. Can you do such wonders as Miss Dinnett?" she asked. "No, Aunt Nelly. I'm a spreader minder. But I'll be a spinner some day, if Mr. Roberts likes for me to stop, here after I'm married." "Sarah would soon learn to spin," declared Sabina.
Ten years later, the rate of wages having in the meantime been reduced 13 per cent., and the time of working having been lessened to 69 hours, the spinner was enabled by the greater perfection of the machinery to produce on a mule of the same number of spindles, 52-1/2 pounds of yarn of the same fineness, and his net weekly earnings were advanced from 27s. 7d. to 29s. 10d. Similar results from similar circumstances were experienced in the Manchester factories.
And the greatest spinner of all, his own tenacity, for ever wrapping its cocoon of threads round any clear way out. What was that fellow hanging round Irene for? Was it really as Polteed suggested? Or was Jolyon but taking compassion on her loneliness, as he would call it sentimental radical chap that he had always been? If it were, indeed, as Polteed hinted! Soames stood still. It could not be!
Sometimes the spinner's to blame herself she may be out of sorts and heavy-handed and slow on her feet and can't put up her ends right, or do anything right; and often it's the fault of the other girls and the 'rove' comes to the spinner rough; and often, again, it's just luck good or bad. If the machine always ran perfect, there'd be nothing to do.
Take them and weave them into a web that is as smooth as a king's robe, and see that it is spun by the time that the sun sets. 'This is the easiest thing I have been set to do, thought the girl, who was a good spinner. But when she began she found that the skein tangled and broke every moment.
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