This machine squeezes out the slag which flows down like the glowing lava running out of a volcano.

The motion of the squeezer is like the circular motion you use in rolling a bread pill between the palms and squeezing the water out of it.

I must get the three balls, or blooms, out of the furnace and into the squeezer while the slag is still liquid so that it can be squeezed out of the iron.
From cold pig-iron to finished blooms is a process that takes from an hour and ten minutes, to an hour and forty minutes, depending on the speed and skill of the puddler, and the kind of iron.

I was a fast one, myself.

But you expected that, from the fact that I am telling the story.