Kinne, Helen · New York: The Macmillan company · leaf 219
Fig. 117. —The handshears. 206 CLOTHING AND HEALTH This industry is very old. We read in the Biblethat wool was used long ago and that King David ofIsrael wrote psalms as he tended his sheep on the hill— … J,.1 >.«& Courtesy of Chicago Flexible Shaft Co.Fig. 118. — Sheep shearing by machinery. side. Abel, the brother of Cain, was a keeper of sheep.Can you find these stories in the Bible ? Writers ofmany ages tell about wool — Pliny, Homer, and Virgil.Alexander too, when he journeyed to India…
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