. Country walks for little folks . ityof man, that he makes even the elements hisservants; the breeze and the stream are detainedin their course, until they have done his plea-sure. Watermills are placed over rivers orbrooks, which are sometimes very small ones;but the water is banked up on each side, andconfined by flood-gates, until there is a sufficientquantity to turn the mill. In ancient times, cornwas ground or bruised between flat stones, bythe labor of the hand, and very great labor itwas: wind and water charge nothing for theirwork. Rub-a-dub-dub, like a man in a tub, Tue watermill ra
. Country walks for little folks . ityof man, that he makes even the elements hisservants; the breeze and the stream are detainedin their course, until they have done his plea-sure. Watermills are placed over rivers orbrooks, which are sometimes very small ones;but the water is banked up on each side, andconfined by flood-gates, until there is a sufficientquantity to turn the mill. In ancient times, cornwas ground or bruised between flat stones, bythe labor of the hand, and very great labor itwas: wind and water charge nothing for theirwork. Rub-a-dub-dub, like a man in a tub, Tue watermill rattles by day;And when it is night, in this fidgetty plight,It continues to rattle away. Why dont you keep still, you incessant old mill ? I wonder what can be the matter:You shudder and quake, and make your sides shake, And your teeth, they do nothing but chatter. When supplied, it appears, that you re always in tears, You remain, yet are willing to jog;If ever you stray from the spot, I shall say. That you certainly travel 55 THE WINDMILL. The wind which shakes the window frame,and blows the smoke down the chimney, hasvery many uses; it disperses unwholesome airand vapors; it wafts the ships from distant seasto our shores, and thus supplies us with all therichest productions of foreign lands; and itturns many a mill, without whose aid many arich man would perhaps be without bread. The sails being driven round by the force ofthe air, communicate their motion to variouslarge wheels within, toothed, as are those in aclock. These again turn the stones, which areas large as a round table, and very heavy. Be-tween these stones, the upper one revolvingwith surprising rapidity, the corn is graduallyjoggled in by the motion of the mill there, it is briskly crushed to atoms, andis afterwards rattled through cloths and canvassuntil all the coarser parts, the husks or branand pollard, are removed. Many corn mills arenow turned by the power of steam, which canbe had whe
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