 | Education - 1861 - 552 pages
...round your finger : it will then endeavor to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the ipring... | |
 | Elements - Success - 1862 - 246 pages
...round your finger ; it will then endeavour to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the inside." This was enough — Ferguson understood it — he went home and made a wooden watch, which... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Biography - 1865 - 590 pages
...round your finger ; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop and leave it to itself,...of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round aiul round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 pages
...be assumed as the place alluded to, as being " nntr a public road," then that road, which runs done by it, is that leading to Durn and Portsoy. box was...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well."''1 I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; 3- This... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Men - 1869 - 324 pages
...round your finger ; it will then endeavour to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 pages
...round your finger, it will then endeavor to unwind itself ; and if you fix the 'Other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...of the hoop/ I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...of the hoop." I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 276 pages
...round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...of the hoop." I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1873 - 326 pages
...round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...of the hoop." I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very welL I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring... | |
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take a long, thin piece of whalebone ; hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,... 
