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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... piece of sackcloth, grinding on a OMsN GRINDING AT A HILL. hand-mill. I heard the ring of this apparatus some time before I saw it, and I now understand what is meant by the preacher when he says. The sound of the grinding is low. WOMEN GRINDING AT A MILL. 295 because the grinders are few.1 Jeremiah also saddens his picture of Israel"s desolation by Nebuchadnezzar by adding that the sound of the mill-stones should cease.2 And upon Babylon, whose king thus stilled the voice of the grinding in Jerusalem, John, with apocalyptic thunders, denounces the like desolation, The sound of a mill-stone shall be heard no more in thee.3 From this on southward through Philistia there are no mill-streams, and we shall not cease to hear the hum of the hand-mill at every village and Arab camp morning and evening, and often deep into the night. I like it, and go to sleep on it as a child to its mother"s lullaby. It is suggestive of hot bread and a warm welcome when hungry and wear)". You observe that two women sit at the mill facing each other; both have hold of the handle by which the upper is turned round on the "nether" mill-stone. The one whose right hand is disengaged throws in the grain as occasion requires through the hole in the upper stone, which is called the rekkab (rider) in Arabic, as it was long ago in Hebrew. It is not correct to say that one pushes it half round, and then the other seizes the handle. This would be slow work, and would give a spasmodic motion to the stone. Both retain their hold, and pull to, or push, from, as men do with the whip or cross-cut saw. The proverb of our Saviour4 is true to life, for women only grind. I can not recall an instance in which men were at the mill. It is tedious, fatiguing work, and slaves, or lowest...
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