Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 19
takesabout twenty workmen, besides lots of machinery, tomake it. It begins with the rollers—monstrous great rollersof steel—which think nothing of rolling a bar of silverout as thin as a sheet of paper if thinness is wanted.For thimbles, however, it is rolled about a twenti-eth of an inch thick,… … ZEBRA AND COLT. 873 J THE ZEBRA. as big as a silver half-dollar (an old-fashionedAmerican coin you may have heard your grand-mother mention). These round silver pieces are the future thimbles,as youll see before they get through their tribula-tions in this house. The next torturing machine turns up…
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