[The Squire of Sandal-Side by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookThe Squire of Sandal-Side CHAPTER VIII 12/59
"I do, Steve.
Don't be in a hurry, my lad. There are some things in life that are worth a deal more than money,--things that money cannot buy.
Let money take a backward place." Then he voluntarily asked about the processes of spinning and weaving wool, and in spite of his prejudices was a little excited over Stephen's startling statements and statistics. Indeed, the young man was so interesting, that Sandal went with him to the hall-door, and stood there with him, listening to his graphic descriptions of the wool-rooms at the top of the great Yorkshire mills. "I'd like well to take you through one, squire.
Fleeces? You would be wonder-struck.
There are long staple and short staple; silky wool and woolly wool; black fleeces from the Punjaub, and curly white ones from Bombay; long warps from Russia, short ones from Buenos Ayres; little Spanish fleeces, and our own Westmoreland and Cumberland skins, that beat every thing in the world for size.
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