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BETTER THAN SPOOLS

By Roy L. French,

Virginia, Illinois 62691

One time when I was a kid I got a bunch of empty wooden spools out of mom's Singer sewing machine drawers. I put a nail through the hole in the middle and nailed them all over the back of the chicken house. I didn't nail them tight, but left them loose so they would turn. Next, I put a string or rubber band around one spool and then another till I had them all connected together. I then put a nail in the outer edge of one of the bigger spools and used it for a crank. As I cranked one spool round and round, it turned the next, and the next, until every spool on the back of the chicken house was turning one way or another. It was sure pretty to watch. I cranked those spools till I had a blister on my finger.

I enjoy mechanical things even yet, especially old things that don't work anymore but could. Some of the people around here know...

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