Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 597
THE TEASEL GROWINGBY THE ROADSIDE. I wonder how many know that it has helpedto finish many a piece of cloth they wear. We are apt to think of a tool as somethingof mans make, yet here is one of natures own,and nothing has ever been manufactured tosuccessfully take its place. For ages theteazel has… … ered, packed carefully in bundles, and sent inall directions to factories. The variety mostlyused have the extreme end of spikes hooked orcurved backward.This is called ful-lers teazel. Theseheads form a sortof brush and areattached to a wheelor cylinder whichrevolves againstthe surface of…
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