[FIGURE 24]
A swift, which was fastened to the edge of a table by a thumb-screw. A skein of yarn was placed on it just as it was expanded, like an umbrella, and then, the swift turning as the yarn was pulled, the yarn could be easily wound from it into a ball or on to a spool.
[FIGURE 25]
A spider or skillet with a bail by which it could be hung over the fire from the crane. It also has legs for standing among the coals.
[Figure 25. Spider or Skillet With Bail]
[FIGURE 26]
This house is suggested in part by a picture of the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse in Alice Morse Earle’s Child Life in Colonial Days, but chiefly by the floor plan in Abbott’s “Rodolphus,” Harpers Magazine, Vol. 4., 1851, page 441.