Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both . Some Pkouucts of the Workshop. THE WORKSHOP 121 but capable of flashes of scornful indignation whenbad work is done or the glue-pot boils over, are ofmother-o-pearl; his spotless waistcoat (he has a scutto match) is of ermine. His necklace is of coral beadsand little pink cowries; its middle ornament of silver,suggesting the form of a hand. All the joys andsorrows of the workshop are known to him; his mildeyes beam in glad sympathy with the elation of success,and smile a kindly encouragement to weariness or thed
Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both . Some Pkouucts of the Workshop. THE WORKSHOP 121 but capable of flashes of scornful indignation whenbad work is done or the glue-pot boils over, are ofmother-o-pearl; his spotless waistcoat (he has a scutto match) is of ermine. His necklace is of coral beadsand little pink cowries; its middle ornament of silver,suggesting the form of a hand. All the joys andsorrows of the workshop are known to him; his mildeyes beam in glad sympathy with the elation of success,and smile a kindly encouragement to weariness or thedejection of failure. All my best friends know Pigot,and never fail, on entering the workshop, to offer hima respectful salutation. CHAPTER XII THE KINSHIP OF COMMON TOOLS What a history they have—our common every-daytools! The oldest and simplest I always think of asAnglo-Saxon tools—axe, adze, wedge, hammer, anvil,their names barely changed for a thousand years. Nodoubt many an old English house before the Conquestwas built with axe and wedge alone, or perhaps withthe addi
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