There Are Few Pigs, There Are No Gleaners, And There
is little grain in the neighbouring fields either of wheat or barley, so the mill wheel will never revolve again except in times of flood when the water may need a double......
His Last Successor, An Equally Good Man In His Way,
is now deprived of the work for which he was trained, but a miller's man can do anything. His very last job of work before leaving the mill was not without pathos. The miller's......
Progress Was Made By The Very Poorest Against Every...
The oldest worker in this discarded mill, whose career is in present memory, attended school for exactly half a day. He was then seven and the sudden offer of a job put an end......
What Craftsmen These Old Workmen Became ! It Is Still
remembered of one of them that he would sit for hour after hour with a pointed iron, roughening, with apologies for the word, the wheat stone (of an entirely different sort from......
Country Life
Tan LAST OF TILE Alms. The wheel of a water-mill that is recorded in Domesday and has plied ever since has just gone out of commission. One after another such mills have been......
Any Of The Four Pair Of Stones Could Be Set
in action by the raising or lowering of rough heads of cogs ; but this was not enough. A shaft was prolonged and the water was made to actuate a device which looks inordinately......
We Cannot, Of Course, Wish For The Return Of Those
days when boys had half a day of schooling, went to work at seven and rejoiced when wages rose to 11s. a week. The present is better. Nevertheless, that is true which a country-......
" Who Killed Cock Robin ? " ' Was It
the ship that brought its cheap cargoes of grain from America to Liverpool, where the immense modern mills give imported grain advantages quite refused to the home product ?......
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