Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 89
And everything that rests aboveWill get a most decided shove;For water that goes bubbling by The idle cogs begin to mesh, And start each others work afresh, And soon you 11 hear the rumbling sound … Contains a power that makes things fly.The belts will then commence their race,As though to find a hiding-place, The miller hears the season round.Some ran for oil with eager zeal,And with it eased the whirring wheel. 19I2-] THE BROWNIES IN THE GRIST-MILL 59 Though some was lost through leaky…
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