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THE LANCASHIRE MILL. 381
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our from thumb this of the with rig the ht hand left , then lays it with together the ri again ht , draws ainand a pinch the ag
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is excellence the , . best This very long and -stap cost led heap elevenpence , from " - , Pernambuco halfpenny per _, " grown
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the varies finished very little goods with depending the penny qualit therefore y of the mainl material y on g the , the , goodnes cost of s
of the " wool" employed . machin heap The of next e for the removing room cotton introduces being dust and thrown us extraneous to the into cleansing the m devil atters recep processes , which in tacle the sucks form of . A a
it of in a box at one filled end with and iron vomits spikes it forth , called at the a _" other , in " a somewhat purer condition , ; after fan which , subjection at the rate to of the eleven action thousand of the
times " blower , " minute a sort of further , revolving cleanses itand loosens the clogged fibres per till the swelling , mass rises to , a vastly increased bulk ,
li in g viting ht , and that pure a medical as a heap man of snow of the -flakes ty , remarks and looking that it so almost softly
makes him , long for a burned child par to be at hand to enjoy the soothing bed
linder It is then thick . - s set ubmitted with metallic to the s carding tubblelike machine a brush , a wi revolving th wire *
in _cy similar the wire place brushes of bristles removable , and overarched but in , such b close y a semicircle contact with of
: he cylinder that there , would not , be room to insert a piece of sheet : hroug -tin his between thoroughl them combed ; so out that by the these cotton bristling , when surfaces forced ; .
md its , filamentsthus y disentangled and laid lengthwise , at Irs iransferred t arranged to the into , " flat drawing narrow box bands " are called there rounded " slivers into , " which what ,
is ooks vhich it is like a drawn heavy a pretty out wei , in ht thick long keeps rope upri slowl of ght , wadding descending lidless , canisters which in order is of deposited tin to , press into ,
lown a materialso g bulky in its y lightness that the receptacle ,
The Lancashire Mill. 381
THE LANCASHIRE MILL . 381
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/21/
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