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"That will never work."
Margaret looked up at her younger brother, Nathan, and stuck her tongue out at him. "Says you. And what do you know, what with all your years of experience?"
"Pa says it won't work. And you've wasted your time. Time you could have been doing something more useful."
Nathan was only six. And kind of a pain in the rear. Margaret sighed. "I worked for the blacksmith's wife for a fortnight to earn these. It's mine and I'll do what I want with it." She kept pushing the tiny pins through the length of leather. She'd marked the leather with a dot in every place it needed one of the pins. She'd already finished the shorter piece that went on the small wooden drum. This length was for the larger drum and she had a thin strip of leather that would make a figure eight and follow the drawing she had. The drawing made sense. She could see that if you turned the crank, the drums would rotate and the wool would be drawn in and onto the larger drum. It would be nice and straight and let her spin finer thread. That's what the lettering under the drawing claimed, at any rate.
"Pa still says it won't work."
"We'll see then. There, I've finished the pins." Margaret stared at the drawing again. "Now I just have to ...
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