The spokes used to be mortised in, now they used flanges, ironwork having almost destroyed the business of the ancient millwright.

Of all manual workers, probably the old style of millwright employed the greatest variety of tools, and was the cleverest in handling them.

There seemed no end to the number of his chisels and augers; some of the augers of immense size.

In winter time the millwright made the millstones, for the best stones are not in one piece but composed of forty or fifty.

The French burrs which Tibbald preferred come over in fragments, and these are carefully fitted together and stuck with plaster of Paris.