If the charge is six hundred pounds, each of my balls must weigh exactly two hundred pounds.
I have always been proud of the "batting eye" that enables an iron puddler to shape the balls to the exact weight required.

This is a mental act,--an act of judgment.

The artist and the sculptor must have this same sense of proportion.

A man of low intelligence could never learn to do it.

We are paid by weight, and in my time, in the Sharon mill, the balls were required to be two hundred pounds.