And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I read somewhere that was the winter's work when the days were short. You'd make the nails you needed for the summer work in the winter. Always had to work ahead to keep alive back then.
buildings were burned down to recover nails, say if one was moving west. the making was often done, seated with trimmer/header, at the household hearth.
Nails were so prized in Polynesia during early contacts that guards had to be set to keep sailors from getting them by hook or by crook to trade for sex with local gurls.
I read somewhere that was the winter's work when the days were short. You'd make the nails you needed for the summer work in the winter. Always had to work ahead to keep alive back then.
ReplyDeleteHave some nails like this from the ruins of the family house in Alabama circa 1820.
ReplyDeletebuildings were burned down to recover nails, say if one was moving west. the making was often done, seated with trimmer/header, at the household hearth.
ReplyDeleteThose triangular nails held better than wire nails because they pushed the grain down and wedged themselves in
ReplyDeleteI thought the apostrophe flood was bad; now we have an epideic of unnecessary hyphens.
ReplyDeleteNails were so prized in Polynesia during early contacts that guards had to be set to keep sailors from getting them by hook or by crook to trade for sex with local gurls.
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