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the rafters and the roof being right over
John’s head. John liked his bed very
much, and he slept soundly till morning.

“The next day he went into the shop,
and was very much interested at seeing the —
forges, and great anvils, and trip-hammers,
going by water.’’

‘ What are trip-hammers??’ asked Rollo.

“Q, they are great hammers which go
by water,” said Jonas, “heavier than a man
can lift; and they strike, heavy and quick, on
the great bars of hot iron, which a man holds
under them. ‘They make a terrible noise.”

“TI should like to see a trip-hammer,”’ said
Rollo.

“John thought they were very curious,”
said Jonas. “They sent him away to the
village of an errand, early in the morning,
and when he returned they had got in the
fire, upon one of the forges, an enormous
piece of iron, which John knew that a man
could not lift, and he wondered how they
were going to get it to the anvil under the
trip-hammer. Mr. Naylor told him to wait
there a minute or two, and so he had a fine
chance to see. He observed that there was
an iron chain round the middle of the iron,