The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . with a pair ofhorses and a heavy wagon, uponwhich was loaded a new and at thatdate a famous invention, no less thana machine for carding wool into rollsand no sooner it is set up in its placethan the boy begins to study itsmechanism and to learn how the Newmarket on the Lamprey 59 wheels go round. Crude as this wasin its inception, its work was veryunsatisfactory and complaints camethick and fast from the good house-wives. The boy discovers that at oneend the product is even, while the out-put f
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . with a pair ofhorses and a heavy wagon, uponwhich was loaded a new and at thatdate a famous invention, no less thana machine for carding wool into rollsand no sooner it is set up in its placethan the boy begins to study itsmechanism and to learn how the Newmarket on the Lamprey 59 wheels go round. Crude as this wasin its inception, its work was veryunsatisfactory and complaints camethick and fast from the good house-wives. The boy discovers that at oneend the product is even, while the out-put from the other he describes ascrinkley, knobby and so you cannotuse it. With true Yankee daring,he seizes a wrench, takes the machine lasting impressions upon the plasticbrain of our subject, for all throughhis long and successful career, he re-fuses to accept what to others wouldmean defeat. Instead he investigates,discovers the source of the difficulties,seizes the wrench, removes the ob-stacle from lifes paths, starts the ma-chinery and accomplishes still betterresults. Having served out more. Hon. James B. Creighton apart, discovers and corrects the de-fect in the mechanism, readjusts itand starts the wheels. He modestlycontinues, James now saw ])oth endsof the machine turn out good, smooth,even rolls, and when Mr. Brown (hisemployer) is told what James hasdone he orders no one to touch themachine but James. Those early lessons make deep and than the customary years of appren-ticeship at Lancaster, Boscawen andSanbornton Bridge before he reacheshis majority, we find him establishinghimself in a mill of his own at Wad-leys Falls. After conducting thissuccessfully two years, he buys at Ep-ping Corner, a mill privilege andland. Here he erects a residence,milk barns, store houses and all the 60 Newmarhet on the Lamx>rey necessary out-buildings incidental tothe early manufacturing of cloth or,let us say, the dressing of the webswhich were the pride of our moth-ers hearts. He w
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