THERE WERE MEN POLISHING AND POLISHING
“Over there,” he said, pointing across the room, “they are putting a lathe together. There will be between sixty and seventy pieces in it when it is done. See, they have arranged all the parts.”
Billy looked wonderingly at the great base and slide, and then at the rods and screws and handles and nuts. He didn’t see how anybody could tell how they went together.
When he asked Mr. Prescott, he said:
“They have drawings that they follow till the men can do it almost without referring to the drawing.”
“What’s that?” asked Billy, pointing to a queer thing over beyond the lathe.
“That,” answered Mr. Prescott, “is one of our special orders. It is a corn canning machine.”
Billy’s eyes grew so bright that Mr. Prescott said:
“Do corn canners interest you more than lathes?”